Olmedo, Valladolid
Olmedo is a municipality in the province of Valladolid, Spain. The Mudéjar theme park is located here.History
Museums
Olmedo is on the N-601 road.
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, judge and governor of New Spain;
- Juan Jiménez de Montalvo, judge of the Royal Audiencia of Lima and acting Viceroy of Peru ;
- Jerónimo de Alderete, conqueror of Chile;
- Julio Valdeón Baruque, historian;
- José Antonio González Caviedes, mayor of Olmedo and Senator for the UPD and later for the Popular Party
- Miriam González Durántez, lawyer, wife of Nick Clegg, daughter of José Antonio González Caviedes.
