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Date Published: 16/07/2024

Santa Ana monastery in Jumilla to feature on ONCE national lottery tickets

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The picturesque monastery just outside Jumilla celebrates its 450^th anniversary this year

Santa Ana monastery in Jumilla to feature on ONCE national lottery tickets One of the features of the Spanish national ONCE lottery, which is held various times every week in order to raise funds for the National Association for the blind, is that the “cupones” or tickets which are sold constantly tour the country and change their design to illustrate sights worth seeing in different parts of the nation, and for the draw of July 24 it will depict the monastery of Santa Ana del Monte in the mountains a few kilometres south of Jumilla.

This date has been chosen to commemorate the 450^th anniversary of the monastery, which was founded in 1574, and it is expected that some 5 million tickets will be sold by the 20,400 registered vendors across the country – why not purchase one of them and see if your luck’s in?

The site of the Monasterio de Santa Ana has been a place of Christian worship since the mid-15^th century and the church is still in use. It is known to be close to a spring on a spot where tradition has it that an apparition of the Saint was seen, but it has been speculated that this location had to be moved due to flooding in times of rain.

Santa Ana monastery in Jumilla to feature on ONCE national lottery tickets Nowadays, Santa Ana is a popular spot for people enjoying a picnic out in the mountains or hiking through the shaded woods and is a great location to enjoy the panoramic views out over the countryside in which the town and castle of Jumilla stand.

For more local events, news and visiting information go to the home page of Jumilla Today.

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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.