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Next to the Sacedón Hermitage, in Pedrajas de San Esteban, near the Eresma River, stands a colossal, centuries-old pine tree on which a life-size human figure has been installed, representing a pine harvester, as a tribute to this profession, so closely linked to the town of Pedrajas, the Piñon region. It's striking to compare the impressive size of the pine tree with the small size of the person.

The strategic town of Íscar in the region of Tierra de Pinares. The city has a defensive castle on top of a hill that dominates the city and the landscape around it with a history of Moorish and Christian heritage.

Once a walled city, Olmedo retains some of its medieval charm, dating back to the Castilian and Leonese Mudejar period with several churches and heritage buildings located near the Plaza Mayor. It is a good place to stop for a coffee and admire the history.

Bridge dating from the XVI-XVII century was a location on the Camino Real de Toledo. Legend has it that a bandit known as Luís Candelas along with his gang used a hidden cave near the bridge to, from above, control the stages that came to cross the bridge and assault them to obtain their loot.

Due to its strategic location, it was also a meeting point for bandits, smugglers and highway robbers, highlighting above all Luis Candelas (1804-1837)

Built by Francisco Praves (1585-1637) in the 17th century, it is built entirely in stone and has the following dimensions: a width of 4.5 meters, a height of 9 meters visible and a length of about 75 meters including the bridge itself. said and the retaining wall on both sides of the river.

Olmedo is known as the town of the seven sevens, a curious name with which it was renamed because in addition to having seven access doors, it had seven squares, seven churches, seven fountains, seven convents, seven houses of nobles and seven towns. who depended on her. Another curious thing is its toponymy. You can imagine that the name of Olmedo comes from elm and it is that the town was surrounded by these trees. Now not a single one remains, since they disappeared when the graphiosis took them away. But if Olmedo is known for something, it is for its knight, a tragicomedy of love and death that Lope de Vega immortalized in his play “El Caballero de Olmedo”. The story that would inspire Lope had its origin in a popular legend from the 16th century based on the quarrels between two neighbors of the town that led to a murder. One charged another when he came from a bullfight in Medina del Campo.

That at night they killed the knight, the glory of Medina, the flower of Olmedo