Olmedo, Valladolid facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Olmedo
Municipality
Olmedo
Coat of arms
Olmedo Location in Spain
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Valladolid
Comarca	Tierra de Pinares
Area
• Total	129.38 km2 (49.95 sq mi)
Elevation	740 m (2,430 ft)
Population
• Total	KIDDLE_IB
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	47410
Official language(s)	Spanish
Website	www.olmedo.es

Olmedo is a municipality in the province of Valladolid, Spain. The Mudéjar theme park is located here.

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.

Olmedo is at one end of a 14.4km test track for high speed trains, and the Talgo gauge changer system. Medina del Campo is at the other end.

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.

See also

In Spanish: Olmedo (Valladolid) para niños