Plans for Holy Week: Tourism in Tordesillas

Source: www.tordesillas.net

Holy week tordesillana has a great tourist interest within the festive and cultural programming of Castilla y León, and more specifically, the province of Valladolid. If you are looking for what to do in Easter in Valladolid or what to do in Castilla y León we bring you a small agenda that could help you choose the perfect plan for those relaxing days.

Through the streets of the municipality pass steps that are real sculptural works that during the year are exposed, as a museum, in the temples of the town. It is then when these days arrived the brotherhoods prepare to take out these precious images during the main days of the religious festival. It is a perfect opportunity to visit and get to know Tordesillas.

DEVOTION AND FAITH

The Holy Week of Tordesillas was declared of regional tourist interest in the year 1996. Its processions are alive history of the place, since probably they were celebrated before 1345, thus they prove documents of the Order of the Tomb that had to its position a Recumbent Christ .

The most outstanding acts are the Procession of the Painful Meeting (Holy Wednesday at midnight in the Plaza Mayor), something that any visitor can not miss, and the Procession of the Passion of Christ (Good Friday) when they leave in procession fourteen steps. We leave you the programming of Holy Week 2018.

TREKKING

Tordesillas is included in the Camino de Santiago del Sureste, which is why there are different hiking routes that are ideal for getting to know the Castilian history and at the same time being in contact with nature. This road to Compostela arrives at Tordesillas from Rueda on the road parallel to the A-6, also crosses the Medieval Bridge and passes through numerous points of interest such as: the Plaza Mayor, the Old Pilgrims Hospital or the Church of Santa María. Serving like this, also to know the town of the Treaty on foot or in bicycle.

Turismo de Tordesillas has published a series of routes with indications for those interested in doing it, which is available for download here.

GASTRONOMY

And without a doubt, one of the favorite plans of anyone who goes sightseeing in Castilla y León should be eating. Tasting the typical dishes and knowing the history and traditions of a locality like Tordesillas is compatible, it is almost an obligation to understand why the importance of this Castilian village caste.

Obviously, if what you are looking for is to try cuisine without artifices El Torreón de Tordesillas is your place. We have an extensive menu, a winery with more than 300 national and international references.