Tomelloso

Tomelloso municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Ciudad Real
Comarca :	Campo de Calatrava
Coordinates	39 ° 9 ′  N , 3 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 9 ′  N , 3 ° 1 ′  W
Height :	662  msnm
Area :	241.83 km²
Residents :	35,873 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	148.34 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	13700
Municipality number  ( INE ):	13082
administration
Website :	www.tomelloso.es
Location of the municipality

Museo del Carro

Posada de Portales

Tomelloso is a municipality in the Spanish province of Ciudad Real in the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The community is rural and best known for the novels by Francisco García Pavón , who grew up there and therefore chose his hometown as the setting for some of his novels about the police chief "Plinio".

Population development

Sons of the city

• Juan Manuel de la Puente Kapellmeister, composer and priest (1692–1753)
• Antonio López García , painter and sculptor (* 1936)
• Antonio López Torres , painter (1902–1987)

Worth seeing

• Posada de los Portales,
• Ayuntamiento
• Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
• Museo de Antonio López Torres
• Museo del Carro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

Web links

Commons : Tomelloso  - album with pictures, videos and audio files