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No, the hobbits don't live here!

These little caves are "bodegas," used in the past for food storage and wine-making. Moratinos is one of several hillside bodega groups visible along the Camino de Santiago trail, part of a wine culture that dates back 2,000 years to the Romans.

The fields around you once were covered in vines, and the caves were full of wine-presses, barrels, massive clay vessels, and bottling vats. Each family made wine enough each year to meet their own needs for the months ahead.

Only two or three Moratinos families still make their own wine, but the caves their ancestors dug into this hillside still are used occasionally to store cheese, hams, and vegetables. Other bodegas were abandoned when their owners moved away to work in the city - be careful to stay away from the collapsed caves!

No one can say how old these bodegas are, but the stories told about them, and equipment still stored inside, say some may be at least 500 years old. Legend says they were dug in wintertime, a pastime for children who could keep warm and occupied scooping out the soft clay. Once exposed to air, the earth hardened to a stony finish, strong enough to support the waste earth that was raised in buckets through the chimney ventilation-shaft and dumped out to form the roof of the present "Castillo." Nowadays, bodegas are used for party rooms and storage cellars.

Moratinos welcomes you! Please do not leave trash, or use the bodegas as toiletsMeer informatie