Valencia Region

Major crossroads in the mountains 70 km west of Valencia where the routes from Valencia, Villar, Teruel, Albacete, and Almansa converge. Today a wine center, it features medieval houses and walls, Gothic churches, and many bodegas.

Latitude: 39.49. Longitude: -1.11.

• Book V Chapter XVI:

  And the Count seeing that he could not abide there in the Cid's despite, broke up the siege and went his way by Requena, for he would not pass through Zaragoza.

• Book V Chapter XXII:

  And the Cid went to Requena, believing that he should meet the King there; but the King went another way, and the Cid not knowing this tarried some days in Requena expecting him, because that was the road.

• Book V Chapter XXIII:

  Now they who hated the Cid spake leasing of him to King Don Alfonso, saying that he had tarried in Requena, knowing that the King was gone another way, that so he might give the Moors opportunity to fall upon him.

• Book VIII Chapter XIII:

  So the Infantes of Carrion went their way, by the Campo del Quarto to Chiva, and to Bonilla, and to Requena, and to Campo-Robres, and they took up their lodging at Villa Taxo.

• Book IX Chapter X:

  King Don Alfonso, you well know that it was your pleasure to bid me meet you at Requena, and I went there in obedience to your command.