Manilva
Manilva has the charm of a white town in an enclave known for its very magnificent church of Santa Ana.
San Luis de Sabinillas
San Luis Sabinillas has the charm of the Mediterranean Sea with its Explendido 8 km. beaches.
El Castillo de la Duquesa
The castle, is located where there was formerly a Roman villa, with baths and a necropolis. The whole environment has been declared archaeological zone of Cultural Interest.
El puerto de la Duquesa
The marina The Duchess is the largest tourist centre of activity throughout the area. It has bars, restaurants, shops and all necessary facilities for its visitors.
| The Vines |
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Certainly the vineyard has been the engine of the economy of this town. If we make a slight passed by the history of vineyards in this land we can see that since the early years of the sixteenth century it will be the crop that has given character to Manilva.
Between 1515 and 1520 the Duke of Arcos, Mr County Casares, the first granted land for vineyards in what in those days were the old payments Manilva. By mid-century that the vineyard had been extended by many of its hills occupy most of the land suitable for cultivation. Since that time the vineyard had greatly expanded, reaching more explendor moments during the seventeenth century and a large part of the eighteenth century, mainly due to trade in wines and spirits with Catalan merchants. When you can really appreciate a clear loss of the vineyard is from 1860, leaving a residual crop. The varieties that prevailed in these lands were vidueños, targeting production of wine, and there were many wineries and cellars scattered all their lands. Since the mid-nineteenth century the vineyard had ceased to be a growing importance in the area. From the early years of the 1920's in almost all the lands of Manilva was not rare to find any strain of muscatel. It was in the cellar of payments, specifically in the so-called vineyard of the Advocate, which put this variety for the first time so widespread throughout the property. It will be after the Civil war begins again when the expansion of vineyards Manilva. With the introduction of muscatel orientation changed radically, the wine stays in the background. Years of explendor led to the vineyard that was done a tribute to the silent work of a people; to do so in late 1950 and early 1960 the council at the time decided to organize a feast for the manilveños and especially for people over the summer working in our vineyards. He was hosting a party with great interest by both neighbors as by visitors. Autumn is near and with it a new cycle in the vineyard, the fruit has been collected and are starting from scratch one more year. |