Saffron Season in La Mancha
Spain's most labour-intensive harvest, the October festival that celebrates it, and the Manchegan town it happens around.
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Castilla-La Mancha
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A few days in October decide the year's saffron crop. Consuegra turns that harvest into a festival on a hill with windmills, and the villages around it still separate the stigmas by hand.
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Manchego Cheese
Spain’s signature firm sheep's milk cheese from La Mancha, perfectly paired with quince paste and red wine
Azafrán de La Mancha
La Mancha saffron: tiny quantities, hard handwork, and the only Spanish saffron with a protected name.
Toledo
A former imperial capital dense with history, medieval lanes, and two historic synagogues.
Consuegra Windmills
A ridge of white windmills and a medieval castle, the classic Don Quixote landscape in the flesh.
Fiesta de la Rosa del Azafrán (Consuegra)
Consuegra's October saffron festival, with the harvest, the contests and the windmills behind it.
La Mancha Wine Region
The world's largest wine-growing region, defining the massive scale and landscape of high-plateau Spanish viticulture
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