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General view of Los Navalucillos among olive groves, with the mountains of the Montes de Toledo behind

Villages of the park · Toledo

Los Navalucillos

At the foot of Rocigalgo, the highest point of the Montes de Toledo, «where nobody is a stranger».

  • 1,889inhabitants (2025)
  • 1 h 30 minfrom Madrid
  • 1 h 40 minfrom Ciudad Real

Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0

The meadow of the tombs

Los Navalucillos spreads across the foothills of the Rocigalgo massif. Its name is said to mean «plain or meadow of the tombs», after the slightly human-shaped graves cut into the rock; some burials still hold Visigothic remains.

The present municipality was born in 1835, when the settlements of Navalucillos de Toledo and Navalucillos de Talavera joined. It is the most populated of the six in the park and its northern gateway: the mountain routes to El Chorro and the Rocigalgo start here.

What to see

  • Church of San Sebastián, in Mudéjar style and from the late 16th century, with a Baroque altarpiece from the school of Churriguera.
  • Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de las Saleras, Renaissance, of the patron saint. Its surroundings were paved with cobbles again in 2024.
  • Ethnographic Museum, opened in June 2023, and Lucinia Farming Museum.
  • The Plaza del Álamo, where the town hall stands, and the welcome gateway with its motto: «Where nobody is a stranger».

Cheese and olive oil

In calle Río Pusa, 2, is the cheese dairy Cerrucos de Kanama, one of the businesses holding the park's European Charter for Sustainable Tourism. It offers visits, tastings with organic wine and workshops on cheeses and curds, and its cheeses keep winning medals: its «Primavera» has reached the podium of the World Cheese Awards in 2023 and 2024, and the Cerruco Natural won gold at the Excellent Taste Awards in London in 2025. Very close, in Los Navalmorales, the estate La Pontezuela has an olive-grove interpretation centre, chosen Best Tourist Product of Castilla-La Mancha in 2023, and an oil, 5 Elementos, awarded the International Olive Council's Mario Solinas prize in 2025 in the small producers category. The park newsletters report it (all the newsletters).

Gateway to the park

Visitor centres, routes and visits in the National Park that you enter from Los Navalucillos.

Festivals

  1. 19 and 20 January

    San Sebastián

    Bonfires, processions and the handing out of blessed bread rings.

  2. End of January

    Matanza Ritual and Gastronomy Days

    A traditional pig slaughter held live, with the villagers. A Festival of Regional Tourist Interest since 2022.

  3. February

    Carnival

  4. Second Sunday of May

    Domingo de Herrera and Festival of the Absent

    Floats, giant-headed figures and bulls, meant for those who live far from the village.

  5. Second week of August

    Rocigalgo Tourism Fair

    Routes through the municipality's main tourist sites.

  6. August

    Summer Fair and Tapas Fair

  7. 5 to 10 September

    Patron saint festivals of the Virgen de las Saleras

    The main festival: open-air dances, giant-headed figures, fireworks and the procession taking the Virgin back to her hermitage. The 8 is a local holiday.

Source: Los Navalucillos Town Council, «Festivals». For the exact dates each year, ask the town council.

Other routes in the municipality

  • La Cabrera and Risco Ñaña route (9 km one way, with views as far as Gredos)
  • Collado de la Ermita and La Botija route
  • Collado de las Escobas route

Routes outside the park listed in the official guide, with data from the town councils.

Getting there

  • From Madrid139 km · 1 h 30 min
  • From Toledo75 km · 1 h 00 min
  • From Ciudad Real137 km · 1 h 40 min
  • From Talavera45 km · 35 min

By car. Distances from OpenStreetMap; times corrected with real journeys and rounded. Approximate. Roads and buses.

Services

  • Ethnographic Museum and Lucinia Farming Museum
  • Municipal tourist information point

Source: Los Navalucillos Town Council, «Places of interest».

No petrol station registered in the municipality. The nearest: Los Navalmorales (calle san francisco, 66), 5.7 km as the crow flies; hours Mon–Sun: 07:00-21:00. According to the Ministry's Petrol Station Geoportal.

Town council: 925 427 002 · official website