--- title: "Discovering Casas Ibáñez: wine and nature in perfect harmony" description: "Today we move to an enclave well known by all the members of Bodegas Vega Tolosa, Casas Ibáñez, our home. We open the doors to all the hidden corners that make up this..." url: https://vegatolosa.com/en/discovering-casas-ibanez-vino-y-nature-en-perfecta-armonia/ date: 2021-10-01 modified: 2021-10-01 author: "daniel-gomez" image: https://vegatolosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/panoramica-casaas-ibanez-1024x525-1.jpg categories: ["Uncategorized"] tags: ["Casas Ibáñez", "Enoturismo", "tourism"] type: post lang: en --- # Discovering Casas Ibáñez: wine and nature in perfect harmony Today we move to an enclave well known by all the members of **Bodegas Vega Tolosa, Casas Ibáñez, our home.** We open the doors to all the hidden corners that make up this wonderful earthly paradise in which we have located our facilities since** 1998**. Join us throughout this post to discover all the benefits that this land has prepared for the** wine tourism lover.**   ## **The origins of Casas Ibáñez** The municipality of** Casas Ibáñez** has its origins in a specific point of the** hole Gualí** where already in the Bronze Age we have knowledge of the first official settlements. Much later it would become part of the imposing **Lordship of Villena** being faithful to these even at the time of the reign of the Catholic Monarchs already within what was known as the village of Jorquera. !(https://vegatolosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/5791685054_264708f7c1_b.jpg) **It was already in****1833 when the province of Albacete** was formed as we know it today where Casas Ibáñez was constituted as its own municipality, becoming the party head of the region. This is how we have arrived today being one of the places of greater population and administrative relevance of the province located south of [**La Manchuela albaceteña.**](https://vegatolosa.com/la-manchuela-una-land-historical-linked-al-vino-three-sites-that-can't-lose/) ** ## **Main points of tourist interest** Below, we are going to show you in a summarized way which are the **Main points of tourist interest in Casas Ibáñez.** Take pencil and paper because we started: ###

### **La Terrera en el río Cabriel** !(https://vegatolosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/la-terrera-300x197.jpg)**Casas Ibáñez** is associated with the plain, like many towns in the region and in the province of Albacete and has an authentic green lung that extends from “la Ceja” throughout the **valle del Cabriel.** In a long walk along the river we came across **la Terrera**, it is a natural place on the banks of the Cabriel River in which the City Council has tried to maintain the facilities of the old hydroelectric power plant by conditioning them to carry out environmental activities. ###

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### **La Plaza de Toros** !(https://vegatolosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Plaza-de-toros-300x225.jpg)The Plaza de Toros, located at the exit of Casas Ibáñez, towards Valencia, on the N-322, was **opened on August 28, 1957** and stood on the first Plaza de Toros built in 1857 thanks to private initiative and which had an area of 4,442 m2 and a capacity of 3000 people. A curious fact is that **currently the bullring has a capacity of six thousand people**, more than inhabitants has Casas Ibáñez. **The works** of the new bullring, which lasted a decade, **were a great effort for the municipal economy and for its completion the neighborhood of the town had to be involved** with economic contributions and voluntary jobs and peonadas. ###

### **Cerro de San Jorge** !(https://vegatolosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cerro-san-jorge-300x225.jpg)The only mound that stands out from the plain where Casas Ibáñez is located is the well-known Cerro San Jorge, **to the southeast of the town**, with 707 meters of height, of municipal property and where today there are the telecommunications antennas, the geodetic point and one of the water tanks that the population has. It also serves **for the recreation of citizens**, since it is far from the urban core just two kilometers and is a circular route for walkers; It also has a **great attraction for cyclists**. ###

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### **Church of St. John the Baptist** !(https://vegatolosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/casas-ibanez-albacete-7137-2-300x225.jpg)Currently it presents a **aspect different from the one it had at the beginning of the 18th century,** since there have been several reforms that it has suffered, especially the one derived from the collapse of its vault in 1846, for which reason it had to be rebuilt for the most part. The main nave has a dome cover of edges, while in the cruiser it presents others of lunettes, which should have been the model of dome that it originally had before its reconstruction. As for his images and objects of worship, a** Christ of ivory and "wood of the holy stick"** from the Italian school stands out, which is the so-called Christ of the Mysteries.   ###

### **Ermita Virgen de la Cabeza** !(https://vegatolosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ermita-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg)In the outer walls is the hermitage-sanctuary of the **Virgen de la Cabeza,** a baroque construction built since 1680, by the aforementioned architect Juan Ruiz de Ris. It is a building of unique nave, with chapels-hornacina between buttresses, semicircular head and vaults of edge, everything, although modest, of good execution. For the most adventurous and explorers we can not fail to recommend the realization of **two country routes** such as the one that a Bocaceja and La Terrera or the one that crosses the edge of the Cabriel River with Tabaqueros. ##

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## **Gastronomy** We can not say goodbye to our home without first providing you with a good meal composed of our best pairing and the most typical dishes of Casas Ibáñez. Who would not enjoy a good **migas ruleras, or a gazpacho and a pisto manchego** with all *[**our best selection of wines à la carte.**](https://vegatolosa.com/tienda/)* We invite you to enjoy all our gastronomy and as a curiosity we must tell you that Casas Ibáñez has been endorsed since the last edition of Madrid Fusion as the town where **the best ham croquette in the world is located.** Bodegas Vega Tolosa opens its doors to you to enjoy [***our guided tours***](https://vegatolosa.com/enoturismo/) through our facilities on your way through these beautiful natural landscapes. We hope to have been able to show you all that this wonderful enclave has to offer where we have located **our home, our only earthly paradise: Casas Ibáñez.** !(https://vegatolosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Design-without-title.png) **Source:** Official website Turismo Casas Ibáñez: *https://xn--turismocasasibaez-txb.es/*