page_title: Mesa de Ocaña
section_title: Cultural Heritage
hierarchical_section_title: Mesa de Ocaña / Cultural Heritage
caption_attribution_description: Fuente Grande. Ocaña. Toledo. Castilla La Mancha. España Vuela hasta este sitio / Fly to this location (Precisa / requires Google Earth)
context_page_description: Mesa de Ocaña is a comarca in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, in the province of Toledo. Its capital and administrative center is Ocaña. The comarca is located in the northeast part of the province, and encompasses an area that includes several hundred meters of the Tajo River Valley.
  The comarca is bordered on the North by Aranjuez; to the south by Los Yébenes and the Mancha Alta de Toledo comarca; to the West by La Sagra and Toledo; and to the East by the Mancha Alta de Toledo and La Mancha de Cuenca.
context_section_description: Mesa de Ocaña has a rich cultural and architectural heritage, not to mention the area's many archeological treasures which document the lives of various different cultures who settled the area throughout the centuries.
  One of the most spectacular of these architectural treasures is the "Plaza de Moros" in Villatobas, an Iron Age village whose walls are covered in murals. The ancient town of Ocaña itself is considered a historical monument in and of itself. The town of Yepes was an ecclesiastical dominion during the rule of the archbishop of Toledo, and is now a historical and artistic monument.
  The towns which make up the comarca share two common characteristics: a plethora of religious architecture and the remains of ancient medieval fortifications. The many religious buildings -- churches, monasteries, convents, and hermitages—are reminders of bygone days of military orders and ecclesiastical dominions. Old defensive buildings include castles in Ontígola and Dosbarrios, the ruins of the castle in Valdecarábanos, and the fortress in La Guardia.
caption: The great fountain in Ocaña.
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