Destination Weddings in Cuenca

For two people getting married in Spain, the little town of Cuenca provides a very dramatic and beautiful setting. It is already the site of two very famous weddings in Spain. The rivers Huécar and the Júcar sunk deep in their gorges join here and form the natural perimeters to a town famous for its Hanging Houses, Casas Colgadas, improbably wedded to a precipitous spine of rock.

Coming out of the only hotel actually situated in Cuenca’s old town, the Posada that occupies a 16th Century convent overlooking the Huécar gorge, fiances enter a maze of narrow streets and small squares. With no through road the absence of traffic adds to the intriguing, almost haunting atmosphere of an old town that shares its elevated position with soaring hawks and eagles.

Cuenca’s 12th Century cathedral sits on the Plaza Mayor. Here is a unique venue for your wedding ceremony in Cuenca. It is notable for its unfinished façade that is larger than the building behind it. It also contains several chapels and the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art which features amongst its treasures  a jewel encrusted Byzantine diptych from the 13th Century and two El Greco paintings.

The Hanging Houses of Cuenca are open to visitors and contain the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art which boasts works of famous Spanish artists exiled from Spain during Franco’s time. Even if the art work is not to your taste the vistas out over the gorge below will impress and exhilirate.You will be able to see the Puente (bridge) de San Pablo spanning the gorge below the Hanging Houses. This could be one of many excellent spots you might choose to take portraits during your wedding in Cuenca.

Post-ceremony newlyweds can repair to any one of the excellent restaurants in town. Cuenca is renowned across Spain for its own very special cuisine and even has its very own liqueur Resolí to toast the wedding couple.

After the excitement of the wedding day in Cuenca you should take the opportunity to visit the nearby Ciudad Encantada, or Enchanted City. It isn’t a city in the ordinary sense but rather a series of fascinating rock formations hidden in a pinewood forest. Here you will find an other-worldly atmosphere to equal that of Cuenca.