Olmedo, Valladolid

Olmedo
Municipality
Olmedo
Coat of arms
Olmedo Location in Spain
Coordinates: 41°17′20″N 4°41′00″W / 41.28889°N 4.68333°W / 41.28889; -4.68333Coordinates: 41°17′20″N 4°41′00″W / 41.28889°N 4.68333°W / 41.28889; -4.68333
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Valladolid
Comarca	Tierra de Pinares
Government
• Alcalde	Alfonso Ángel Centeno Trigos (PP)
Area
• Total	129.38 km2 (49.95 sq mi)
Elevation	740 m (2,430 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	3,897
• Density	30/km2 (78/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	47410
Official language(s)	Spanish
Website	www.olmedo.es

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

History

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 Durántez (1968–), lawyer, wife of Nick Clegg (Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2010–15), daughter of José Antonio González Caviedes.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olmedo.

• Official site