On this guided tour of Huete, you will walk through its streets with our local guides, discovering all the most emblematic buildings in the city. The visit takes place through the streets, although you will also access the Church of the Convent of La Merced, the Convent of Jesus and Mary, the Apse of Santa María de Atienza or the Casa Palacio de los Condes de Garcinarro. All this in a comfortable route of just over a kilometer and a duration of 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Huete is the City of Heritage, where the formula culture, nature and tradition combine to create the most monumental urban space after the capital of Cuenca. Its history and topography take us back to the era of the medieval Reconquest, with a castle that dominates the city both in landscape and concept, at the foot of which is distributed an urban fabric inherited from the different cultures and periods of which Huete has been a direct witness.

Its streets are filled with churches such as those of San Pedro and Santo Domingo, and Monasteries such as those of La Merced or the Jesuit Order. The important history of this municipality pushed the presence of religious life to be more intense than in the capital of Cuenca itself, with the construction of 8 monasteries and 10 parishes that gave Huete an era of urban and social splendor for more than two hundred years. Of all its monuments, the Apse of Santa María de Atienza stands out with special significance, one of the best examples of Full Gothic (13th century) in the province of Cuenca and which holds in its heart the living soul of medieval legends of chivalry, with a burning candle that awaited the arrival of Christian troops for more than 400 years.

Huete is passion, and the people of Opten make that passion a tradition. Here, some of the best festivals in the entire territory are celebrated and which are rooted in the religiosity and veneration closest to the pulse of the town, the festivities of San Juan Evangelista and Santa Quiteria, corresponding respectively to the neighborhoods of Atienza and San Gil. Two neighborhoods, two festivities, one month (May) and the same feeling that permeates the blood of Juanists and Quiterios in one of the busiest and most traditional festivals in the entire province. Its processions, dances, gallops and marching bands imbue the city with that festive air and that make these celebrations Festivals of Regional Tourist Interest.

Although Huete stands out on its own, its natural environment creates an even literary parenthesis, the Alcarria, which fills the entire Optense environment with its witness hills, gullies and irregular landscape. A natural landscape that transcends time served as the basis for the economy of the area, highlighting the importance of lapis specularis, Cristal de Hispania, a gypsum mineral that the Roman Empire exploited for more than two centuries and which has some of its best mining centers in Huete that can be visited by the public.

And all this is best digested with good wine and good cheese, something that Huete has in quantity and quality thanks to its colorful wineries and modern cheese factories, which create the perfect complement to a visit to this city. And what about the famous Alcarria honey, which sweetens the desserts of the area and serves as the icing on the cake for a good Cuenca menu.

Huete combines history, heritage, tradition and gastronomy that make this city the Mecca of the province of Cuenca, at least once in your life you have to visit it.