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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.

Nucleus in the south of the province of Valladolid and that its name comes from the Om tree, popular power in these lands.

A few kilometers from the town of Olmedo, it is a unique and incredible place. A magnificent presentation of the site, with a magnificent and well-explained permanent exhibition. It has a full-scale reconstruction of the town, something unique in Spain.

It is a charming town in Valladolid that, despite its few 200 inhabitants, preserves a spectacular Mudejar-style church.

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