Casa Rural Vacatio

The village of Munilla is located in the District of Arneldo , in the province of La Rioja. Its geographical location, in the Sierra de la Rioja Southeast, allows you to enjoy a very fertile land , thanks to the passage of rivers Aydillo and Manzanares .

It has a surface of 54km2, and is located near the villages of Robalmaguillo, La Monjía, Antoñanzas, La Santa, San Vicente de Munilla and Peroblasco . Solo 35 km la separate from Calahorra , and a little further, 69 km, is the city of Logroño .

His 110 inhabitants live, mostly, of the construction, the rural tourism and the livestock , vaccine and goats. Some of them have their own orchards, located on the riverbanks . In addition, the town is famous for its footwear industry , the cloths and chocolates , which have great demand both in La Rioja and in other communities.

The village has a structure based on streets with staggered homes , which support a cool temperatures in the summer months and cold in winter, when everything is dyed white by the fall of snow.

Undoubtedly, the area invites to be explored with long excursions by woods serranos, full of plants such as chamomile or thyme , shrubs as the holly, and walnuts, oak, or beech , among which There live species like deer, squirrels, boars and foxes . Such is the value of these lands that are part of the Regional Reserve of Cameroso Caza-La Lamanda .

Leaving aside the mountain range, in the village , Santa Maria , where Fountain of Santa María , one of the several fountains that exist in the town, is discovered. The value of historic center makes the tourism is gaining great importance in the town, which is filled with tourists in summer. These come to see religious temples, as the Church of San Miguel or Santa Maria de la Asunción , the Hermitage of the Virgin of Peñalara , or places of ancient times to which the nature and the environment have gone adapting , as is the case of the Roman Bridge , which now passes only vegetation.