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October 24 A range of excellent guided tours during the Matavendimia festival in Jumilla

Four varied visits as Jumilla celebrates the end of the grape-picking season

October 24 A range of excellent guided tours during the Matavendimia festival in Jumilla During the Matavendimia festival in Jumilla to celebrate the end of the 2026 grape-picking season a series of guided tours are being held at a selection of the most popular visitor attractions in and around the town.

Registration for all tours is available online here and the schedule for Saturday 24^th October is as follows:

11.00: A dramatized tour (in Spanish) of the 15^th-century castle of Jumilla, built by the Marquises of Villena on the hill behind the town on the remains of an ancient Moorish fortification.

To arrive at the main gate of the castle by car it is necessary to receive a prior authorization slip from the tourist office: if you take up this option please do so at least 15 minutes before the start of the tour.

Registration cost: 3 euros.

11.45: A tour of the Ethnographic and Jerónimo Molina Natural History Museum, including a fascinating collection of tools related to traditional crafts in Jumilla as well as a great selection of fossils, minerals, prehistoric fossilized footprints and other exhibits. The tour starts at the museum in Plaza de la Constitución and the registration cost is 3 euros.

October 24 A range of excellent guided tours during the Matavendimia festival in Jumilla

12.00: Guided tour of the Jumilla Wine Museum (Museo del Vino) to explore the history of a wine-making tradition which has lasted in Jumilla for at least 2,000 years. In the exhibits the importance of the Monastrell strain of grape is prominent.

The tour begins at the main door of the museum on Avenida José Sánchez Cerezo, registration cost 3 euros.

October 24 A range of excellent guided tours during the Matavendimia festival in Jumilla

17.00: A walking tour of the historic old centre of Jumilla, admiring the narrow streets, the squares, the façades of the noble houses adorned with coats of arms and other important architectural and religious buildings.

The tour beings at the Ruta del Vino DO Jumilla stand at the Matavendimia fair and registration is priced at 3 euros, which includes the commemorative glass of the festival.

October 24 A range of excellent guided tours during the Matavendimia festival in Jumilla

For more local news, events and visiting information please contact the local tourist office (968 780237) or go to the home page of Jumilla Today.

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Oficina de Turismo Jumilla

The tourist office in the centre of Jumilla is easily found by driving straight into the centre of the town along the Avenida de Murcia and following the signposts. The tourist office is alongside the Parque de Don Albano Martínez Molina, where there are a number of parking spaces.

Jumilla, in the north of the Region of Murcia, has become internationally famous over recent decades due to the quality of the wines produced in the municipality, and wine tourism has begun to attract visitors from other parts of Spain and the rest of Europe.

The tourist office is happy to provide a range of maps and leaflets showing the different bodegas which can be visited within the municipality. Some of these form part of the Rutas del Vino de Jumilla, the Jumilla wine route, and can either be visited as a guided tour or sell their produce directly to the public.(see feed below for more details)

However, the town and the surrounding countryside have plenty of other attractions for visitors, and the popularity of Jumilla wines is leading more and more people to discover other facets of the tenth largest municipality in Spain.

Jumilla Tourist Office

These include the spectacular countryside and birdlife in the Sierra del Carche, the historic remains which range from cave paintings and a Roman mausoleum to the castle, the Iglesia de Santiago, the Town Hall and the Teatro Vico, and the gastronomy: rich stews are accompanied not only by the wines of the area but also by Jumilla pears, which also enjoy Denomination of Origin status.

Tourism in Jumilla is not as seasonal as it is in the coastal areas of the Region of Murcia, but the town is at its liveliest during the fiestas in Holy Week and the August Fair, which incorporates the grape harvest celebrations and the Moors and Christians parades.

The Altiplano of the Region of Murcia, which consists of the municipalities of Jumilla and Yecla, is only just over an hour by car from the Mar Menor, Cartagena, Mazarrón, Torrevieja and Alicante, and anyone wishing to visit real inland Spain and world-class wineries is advised to include Jumilla in their schedule.