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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.

Example of Mudejar art that penetrates the narrow and labyrinthine streets of Olmedo. This double arch from the 13th-16th century is one of the two survivors that remain in Olmedo from the seven original entrances.

Catholic temple in the town of Olmedo dating from the 12th century in a Romanesque style although it was renovated in the Mudejar style in the 15th century and later in the 16th century in the Gothic style.

Religious sanctuary dating from the 13th century in the town of Olmedo. It is a good example of Mudejar architecture, which is why we can find a representation in the Mudejar theme park, at the entrance to this town.

Landscaped park where we find representations of Mudejar art constructions on a 1:8 scale. This park wants to publicize Mudejar art, an artistic style that occurred in the Christian kingdoms of Spain between the 12th and 16th centuries with great influence from Muslim art. Rates and schedules can be seen here: https://www.olmedo.es/pasionmudejar/varios.php?art_id=267

Small dam with a power switchboard next to the remains of a medieval bridge.

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

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.