The possibilities offered by this region are plentiful. One has the option of visiting the archaeological sites from the Bronze and Middle Ages, and Roman times, as well as an interesting collection of Iberian artefacts.

The breeze from the nearby Sierra de El Carche refreshes the heat of Jumilla´s vine-covered territory, with its fiestas (festivals) such as the Vendimia, or Grape Harvest (mid August). The area has a number of increasingly internationally renound bodegas (wineries).

Yecla, the centre of furniture manufacture in Spain, is 30km from the property, and an afternoon wandering through the 50/60 showrooms there makes a relaxing change. Yecla celebrates it's festival in December when the town pays homage to the Virgin, or Purísima, with purifying rituals of gunpowder and harquebusades. Everyone is welcome.

Towns such as Abanilla are steeped in history and tradition. The hot springs and spas of Fortuna also make a relaxing day out.

A folder with full details of the local wine trails, historic sites and monuments, golf courses, walking tours and other local attractions is available at the property.

The first fortifications on this site go back at the Bronze age and each subsequent civilization have added it.

In the iron age a great fortified town was established. Later the Roman legions arrived and added fortifications to the hill, constructing part of the wall that is conserved nowadays.

In April of 713AD Arab troops invaded the territories of Jumilla in their attempt to occupy the Iberian peninsula and begin the construction of a stronghold on the old Roman ruins. These occupiers stayed in Jumilla for five centuries, until in 1241 it was conquered by the troops of San Fernando and was joined for the first time to the crown of Castile.

In 1461 the Marquess of Villena built the castle as it stands today, with its three floors, cellar and terrace, putting its image onto his coat of arms.