Date Published: 02/06/2023

Jumilla Wine Festival to receive the Region of Murcia Gold Medal for its 50th anniversary

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The award will be handed out next Friday, on Region of Murcia Day

Jumilla Wine Festival to receive the Region of Murcia Gold Medal for its 50th anniversary

The Fiesta de la Vendimia de Jumilla, the Murcia town’s grape harvest festival, will receive the Gold Medal of the Region of Murcia this coming June 9, as approved today by the CARM Governing Council.

The City Council of Jumilla approved in the plenary session of October 2022 a joint motion requesting the CARM to grant this medal to the Fiesta de la Vendimia on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.

Acting mayor of Jumilla, Juana Guardiola, has shown her pride for this recognition, “given the trajectory and development of this festival linked to the wine culture of Jumilla”.

The Town Hall is also finalising the application for the Fiesta de la Vendimia to be declared an event of National Tourist Interest.

It will be one of the 17 distinctions that will be awarded at an event to be held in San Javier on June 9, which is a regional holiday for the Day of the Region of Murcia.

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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.