Candelario
Member of Los Pueblos más Bonitos de España
Sausage-making shaped Candelario: its tall stone houses have deep eaves and wooden galleries once used to cure meat, and half-doors called batipuertas guard their entrances. Channels of snowmelt, the regaderas, run down the steep streets. Oak and chestnut woods surround the village on the slopes of the Sierra de Béjar, part of a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Highlights
- Museo de la Casa Chacinera, in a traditional sausage-maker's house
- Boda Típica, a traditional wedding staged on the second Sunday of August
- Church of the Asunción, with a mudéjar coffered ceiling and Gothic rose window
- Cruz del Herrerito viewpoint on a hill just south-west of the village
- Oak and chestnut woods of the Sierras de Béjar y Francia biosphere reserve
Text adapted from Wikipedia (Candelario (ES), Candelario (EN), Candelario (IT)). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Population: 832
Things to see
- Calvitero (ES)
- Navamuño Reservoir (ES)
Events through the year
- Feast of the CandelariaProcession; new mothers present their babies at the church
- Procession of the Cristo del RefugioImage carried to the parish church for a novena
- Fiestas de Santa AnaFour days of music and bullfights; procession in traditional dress
- Boda TípicaStaged late 19th-century wedding, crowds in traditional costume
Dates follow the traditional patterns in our sources: check locally before you travel.
Adapted from Wikipedia (Candelario). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Local food & wine
- Candelario cured sausagesCured meatDried in the house galleries; once sent to the royal court
- Calamar de huertaDishBattered pepper served as a tapa
- Probadura de chichasDishTasting of sausages on Candlemas, 2 February
Adapted from Wikipedia (Candelario). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where to sleep
18 places to stay within 3 km
- Hotels 11
- B&Bs and guest houses 3
- Hostels 2
- Campsites 2
Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Thermal baths nearby
- Thermal spa: Balneario de Montemayor · ~20 min by car
- Thermal spa: Balneario · ~20 min by car
- Thermal spa: El Salugral Termal Resort · ~25 min by car
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Nearby member villages
- Miranda del Castañar · 25 km
- Mogarraz · 30 km
- La Alberca · 34 km
- Valverde de la Vera · 35 km
- Bonilla de la Sierra · 44 km