Spain Town Walk: Discovering the Hidden Beauty of Brihuega

[@kenwarburton2578]

Stu, an excellent video of Brihuega, and what a clean and well kept town it is. Credit to the local council and residents. The lavender fields are magnificent when they are in full flower. Thanks Stu.

[@seamusp5991]

Thanks, Stu. I absolutely LOVE your walkabouts and really appreciate all your hard work. 😊

[@andrewmeasures2312]

SStuart, what a lovely town. Spotless and no graffiti. I would expect that it's not the cheapest place to live. It looks like a place I would quite like to visit. Shame the locals are antipaticos. Great broadcast Stuart and thank you for sharing it with us. 😀👍

[@JeanElliott-p5h]

Wow Stew… what an amazing town. Always look forward to your ‘ walk abouts’. Thank you for the time you take to all of these. Take care.

[@janethaver3375]

My daughter and family went to Brihuega in early July this year when the lavender festival was on. She said the whole town smelled wonderfully of lavender and the streets we festooned with lavender coloured drapes and upside down umbrellas. My grandsons brought me a satiny pouch of dried lavender to put in a drawer which made everything smell very nice!

[@Osusackett]

Thank you for presenting these town walk around videos. I really enjoy learning and seeing these smaller towns.

[@michaeltravers6109]

Thank you Stuart for that wonderful tour of Brihuega, I truly appreciate your good work, most enjoyable viewing. Take care, and God bless. 🇮🇪

[@highflyer1965]

Hi Stu. Thanks for the video. I am a great lover of lavender so will definitely add this village to our list of places to visit. Thanks again, John.

[@padredemishijos12]

Stewart. You have more love of Spain than a good number of the Spanish. You are a righteous Guiri.

[@diegodejuan4825]

I tried lavanda ice-cream once in Brihuega and I liked it. Very nice town, I would not say it is overly touristic. In the Alcarria "comarca" (county or shire) there are good places to see, indeed. You can manage it all in a day, setting off from Madrid. Stu, you missed the "Real Fábrica de Paños" (Royal Cloth Factory), a 18th century circular building that was quite important back in the day.

[@harriettt9857]

Nice town Brihuega . Very tidy and well kept. Trees ,greenery , no graffiti so all in all a good place to visit .Must be some sight when the lavender is in bloom .👏👏

[@barbarajefferson4672]

A very nice town. Much nicer than other small towns you have recently featured. Maybe over time the populations will shift back to the small towns. If so, this town is a good model. Thanks for the interesting exploration of small towns.

[@radio1933]

Stuart a lovely trip around a very pretty town. Thank you so much. The sandy coloured buildings are very restful for the eyes

[@daviddoyle5291]

Drove down from Santander to Huelva last week with stop overs in Salamanca and Caceres it was raining very heavily when we got to Salamanca so we were unable to do a walking tour of the old town. Caceres was a different story and we enjoyed a day strolling through the old part of the city from the Plaza Mayor, lovely trip down the Routa de la Plata looking forward to our next trip through a largely unexplored part of Spain long may it remain that way.

[@karenjohnson6667]

What a lovely town, and not too far for a day trip from Madrid. It was so quiet that I wondered when you were there until you said on a Tuesday at 1pm. So that's good to know as a potential visitor, and of course it is much much more quiet at this time of year. I love these videos of small towns. Thanks!!

[@baycast]

Thanks, Stu, for the most enlightening video of Brihuega. What fabulous architecture in this small town with lots of places of interest. I loved the panoramic view and all the touches of the agricultural community. Thank you again for your time and shoe leather. It will most definitely be keeping your step count up!

[@johnetie]

Brihuega is in much better condition than most of the towns you have visited so far. Quite pretty too.

[@Toltecgrl]

Oh my gosh Stewart what a beautiful little town. Thank you for sharing this with us!! ❤❤

[@wendymiles4910]

A really interesting video - what a beautiful historical town - its now on my list if new places to visit in Spain

[@lmaitland1108]

Leo from Vigo.. It is very interesting of your new technique of getting out of the Madrid area. The town you've been in has an interesting history of the Batte of Birhuega. It was a conflict between the retreating British and France/Bourbojn Spain...

[@Alvar2001]

A more recent battle in Brihuega in 1937, although is more famous as "Batalla of Guadalajara", italian Mussolini soldiers in one side spanish republicans in the other side.

[@erikawallace3404]

Lovely to re-visit Brihuega. Still as beautiful as I remember it from the early 80s!!! La Alcarria is a famous area in Guadalajara as it was always a rich area. Camilo José Cela wrote 2 books about his trip around the Alcarria. The first book is very interesting, the second one is more Cela in his latter days. Thanks for this lovely video and for making me go back to Brihuega for free!!!

[@PAULFOX-zg1oq]

Fantastic little town - best yet for me

[@guayames]

Very impressive and interesting town! Never heard about it. Thanks for sharing!

[@nspr8cio]

I have been by those lavender fields during the summer and they're stunning. Love this part of the country.

[@margaretpickbourn2647]

What a nice town. I lived in Almeria and didn’t travel too far inland. So I’m really enjoying your walks. Thank you

[@Muzakman37]

Nice one Stu, Brihuega's a lovely little town in a lovely region full of some lovely little towns (like Jadraque, Trillo, Cogolludo & of course glorious Siguenza). I remember talking to a few locals when we were there and they said Brihuega's been saved by lavanda from the fate facing so many other similarly lovely but almost aged-out towns and villages in central Spain. When driving round central Spain's small towns & pueblos I used to rejoice seeing kids playing in the street or young families, that's what it has come to now.

[@markashdown1314]

I also love and live in small town Spain, you really get it Stu.Very few do.Thanks.

[@steven1515]

Very interesting Stuart verry well kept town some lovely architecture. Some lovely streets and lovely cobblestones. The thing that always baffles me is where are the people they must all be retired 2:00 p.m. so I suppose that means shops closed and siesta time😂😴 thanks for the tour keep up the good work mate🇪🇸👍

[@scottamartin2518]

I've lived in Madrid for 18 years now and have visited Brihuega twice. I'd imagine that, at 1pm on a Tuesday, most working-age people are at work either in the town or in other places outside of the town. We didn't see many bars in the video, but surely they'd be busy inside, due to the weather. Retired people are also likely indoors, preparing lunch and staying dry. Come 8pm, I'd bet there'd be much more strolling foot-traffic.

[@josechapman7611]

Good vid mate I am enjoying them thanks mate

[@joseantoniodavila2752]

Brihuega and the running of the bulls. A friend from Brihuega invited me to the fair when we were in high school. The Hare Krishna had and still do their headquarters in Spain in Brihuega. A bull escaped and got into the Hare Krishna property. That was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. The HAre Krishna uniform is not the most appropriate to avoid being gored by a bull. It was funny seeing them running like hares (Krishna), I know I'm being bad. My friend from Brihuega is lame in his left foot from birth and, well, there he still goes running the bulls in Brihuega yearly

[@paradoxparade1]

Nobody cares dude

[@TheRealJoseramirez]

@@paradoxparade1 I thought it was quite interesting so maybe you might want to consider keeping your opinions to yourself.

[@janethaver3375]

I found it interesting Jose Antonio. It’s a shame that some people have to be rude and unfriendly

[@Muzakman37]

@@paradoxparade1 Speak only for yourself.

[@waynemacdonald757]

What a lovely little town thanks for the video on my list now

[@helendudden9638]

Beautiful place.

[@PiperStart]

Really interesting, thanks - and it rains in Spain!

[@leonorlopez7932]

Thank you for sharing, Informative channel #Spain 👍😍

[@CarolinaPetronellaOttolina]

yes been there its beautifull

[@AdventureElliot]

Hey stuart I've been reaching out to numerous car companies to try to work on a long-term sponsorship so that I can drive to towns like these in Spain and create content like this in English and Spanish.. However, all the car rental companies don't seem to be interested. I know you drive your own car but have you ever tried to leverage something like that with your channel? If so, what companies would you recommend? I've always been a proponent of rural "real Spain" tourism and unfortunately the only way to do that is with a car. By the way, the region you're in is one of the most sparsely populated areas in all of Western Europe..22 degrees down in Malaga today.. Un saludo

[@Muzakman37]

It's even sparser than that, it's the emptiest region anywhere in the EU south of Northern Scandinavia/Arctic region. And I *love* it!

[@AdventureElliot]

@@Muzakman37 thanks for that, I will make a video There

[@gaholliday]

You should do a video of Estercuel near Zaragoza.

[@carsmusicfan]

Beautiful town and so refreshing to see the lack of graffiti! Cheers!

[@lisadelgado8915]

I'd love it if you could mention ways to GET to these little towns..Car (obviously), but maybe mention train stations and/or bus connections as well.Thanks!!!!!

[@123seanaway]

Another superb video Stu.. Any idea where the town got its name?

[@PIGGY789]

What a lovely town Stu , bet there is a lovely cafe there that does a great Pan con Tomate, this town is very similar to some of our local towns in Malaga but of coarse we dont have Lavender in Malaga that i know of but i believe there are some lavender fields in Murcia

[@solidus_snake_]

This would be a great town to be a remote worker. Everything is within walking distance!

[@d.c.sodyssey4783]

is this town accessible from Madrid by daily city bus ? is there a daily bus station in the small town? or a tourist bus station only.?

[@yanassi]

What nice town. I guess the lavender fields, will be on my spanish agenda.

[@highflyer1965]

Also, relieved there didn’t seem to be to much graffiti. Thanks 🙏

[@Isilog]

Hola mister Stewart es usted un embajador excelente de España. Conocer nuestra cultura y lengua es un plus pues hay mucho que ver en esa piel de toro no solo el mar, tapa y cerveza. Conocerse ayuda tener lazos más fuertes, pienso como europeo que fue una decisión equivocada que UK dejara de ser miembro de la UE pero fue su decisión nuestros países hacen parte de la historia del viejo continente. Saludos.

[@EdMcF1]

There was a lavadero in the Algarve village of Estoi north of Faro, in the 80s I regularly saw women washing clothes in it. Not seen one since.

[@Aotruba]

Thank you, Stewart, for this lovely tour!❤ I just retired and planning to move to Spain. Probably Oviedo (?) I lived 5 years in Spain 2000-2005. Would you live in Brihuega? I love your videos!👍😊👍

[@markashdown1314]

People use the 200 year old lava deep in my fab village. Good spot for a gossip.

[@GoldStandardGlobal]

Nice looking town Stu, flatter for a walkabout lol. Well done mate, another great video, regards Marco 👊

[@CL-man]

Great stone buildings and monuments. It must have taken many labourers or slaves, and much effort to build these beautiful structures - churches, etc. I wonder the amount of time it took to complete these structures - years?. Very nice town. Lavender has a soothing effect on people. some people use it over their pillows. The fragrance gives people a peaceful sleep, so they say.. Thanks!

[@Alvar2001]

"many labourers or slaves..." just old skilled craftsmen, it´s Spain not USA or Australia.

[@CH-jd8km]

The last building must have been a synagogue as it has the Star of David.

[@alexritrut1432]

Aquí se habla español

[@hildelouisevrijs774]

Finally a village with trees! This small town has something, hard to put it in words Stu……❤️Hil

[@Bmwxcountry]

Stewart, I’ve been watching for many years. Did stop for a bit because of all the bad political things you were reporting about. Just started watching again because of the small towns. I’m American and love Spain. But you do come across as a bitter person with a lot of negative comments. And you walk by beautiful places and things without a word about them. Never going inside a panadería to show the beautiful bakery or whatever is inside places. You come across as you don’t care about the videos or the place or people you visit. Such a shame. Just my thoughts for what that’s worth.

[@janethaver3375]

I don’t think Stuart comes across as bitter. I think he just gives his opinion. He has made his life in Spain and seems to enjoy his family life. He’d probably rather live somewhere less hot in summer and misses the sea, but his affection for the country and its food and wine are very evident. We all have gripes about where we live, but I for one enjoy Stuart’s output, as I’m sure do many other watchers. He’s a nice man, and I’m happy with that

[@Muzakman37]

To be quite honest, panaderias are much the same across Spain and pretty often nothing special, esp if you cant taste the pan they sell. Now, a pasteleria? That's a different story, they're visually rather more interesting.

[@DomStew]

Owner of the panaderia...lol