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Olmedo, Valladolid

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Country
  
Spain

Comarca
  
Tierra de Pinares

Postal code
  
47410

Elevation
  
740 m

Population
  
3,759 (2014)

Province
  
Province of Valladolid

Autonomous community
  
Castile and León

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Official language(s)
  
Spanish

Area
  
129.4 km²

Local time
  
Friday 7:10 AM

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Weather
  
0°C, Wind SE at 3 km/h, 87% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Castillos de olmedo, Bodegas y Viñedos La Mejorada, Bodegas La Soterraña

Olmedo is a municipality in the province of Valladolid, Spain.

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Map of Olmedo, Valladolid, Spain

Museums

  • Palacio Caballero de Olmedo.
  • Parque temático del Mudéjar de Castilla y León.

    • Transport

    Olmedo is on the N-601 road (Adanero-Olmedo-Valladolid–Medina de Rioseco–León).

    The Madrid–Valladolid high-speed rail line runs through the municipality, and Olmedo is planned to be the branching point for the high-speed line running to Zamora and Galicia.

    Gastronomy

  • Cuisine of the province of Valladolid

    • Notable people

  • Juan de Sarmiento, member of the Council of the Orders and historian of the Order of Alcántara;
  • Ignacio Ortega y Cortés, member of the Council of the Orders and assistant to Diego de Covarrubias.
  • Sebastián Cortés y Cárcel, jurist;
  • Brother Bartolomé Ochaita, advisor to Hernán Cortés;
  • Alonso de Zuazo (1466–1539), judge and governor of New Spain;
  • Juan Jiménez de Montalvo (1551–?), judge of the Royal Audiencia of Lima (1598–?) and acting Viceroy of Peru (1621–22);
  • Jerónimo de Alderete (1516–56), conqueror of Chile;
  • Julio Valdeón Baruque (1936–2009), historian;
  • José Antonio González Caviedes (1938–1996), mayor of Olmedo and Senator for the UPD and later for the Popular Party
  • Miriam González Durantez (1968–), lawyer, wife of Nick Clegg (Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2010–15), daughter of José Antonio González Caviedes.

    • References

    Olmedo, Valladolid Wikipedia
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