The Estercuel town is located in piedemonte north of the saw of San Just (Sist. Iberian) occupying a hillock that looks to the river of the same name, Balckberry they name some to such a current, and that is crowned by the big house with the castle that was of the Atrosillo.

In his term the important one finds monastery mercedario of the Olive grove, where Tirso de Molina ambientó “La lady of the Olive grove ”. Tirso of Molina speaks to us about Laurencia, one young man very beautiful that his father was going to marry a called farmhand Maroto. The master of Montalbán, on having seen it, prendó of his beauty, her seduced and later it left it. Laurencia, outraged, joined to one bandits' band, of which it became a flagship. One day crossed with the master of Montalbán and executed it. With Maroto it was going to to come from equal way, but this one entrusted to himself to the Virgin, who appeared, and there they constructed the monastery of the Olive grove.

Estercuel, is an excellent mining locality and that notices in the renewal of his hamlet, which nevertheless keeps one peculiar silhouette presided for the block of the castle - palace. The silhouette from the church, to a low level and the Calvary in a hillock immediate, they complete the sight of the Town.

She should have been a walled population, judging by his plant and her conservation of elements as the Main road that covers from north to south and that there preserves one of his portals, the Portal of the Barrier with his chapel of Santos Martires.

The parochial church of Santo Toribio preserves the city center, them chapels of the Virgin and of the Saint, some notable portals, her house of the Priest and the Castle, imposing big house of brick that it raises highest on the roofs of the town.

Estercuel celebrates his management holidays in honor of Santo Toribio, on April 16, and of Our Lady of the Olive grove, on September 9, but what has given him reputation is the “Encamisada ”, a procession of atonement with knighthood enjaezadas, remembering that the Town freed of a terrible epidemic, procession that opens the celebrations of the Sanantones in January. (ftes. and texts to see links)