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What to see and do in Olmeda de la Cuesta

What to see and do in Olmeda de la Cuesta (La Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 2 Curiosities

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What to see and do in Olmeda de la Cuesta

Olmeda de la Cuesta
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Alcarria Conquense, in the province of Cuenca, which since 2020 has auctioned plots at token prices to attract new residents and which, with sixteen inhabitants, featured in 2022 in the third Calendar of Empty Spain. On the façades of its houses ceramic reproductions of historic advertising posters have been placed, presented as the only outdoor advertising museum in the world; from the town came the eighteenth-century Jesuit Juan Manuel Blanco and the bibliographer and bookseller Pedro Vindel Álvarez.
Museum of Publicidad Exterior de Olmeda de la Cuesta
Monument
Ceramic reproductions of historic advertising posters placed on the façades of the town's houses, presented as the only museum of its kind in the world.
The plots against depopulation
Curiosity
Since 2020 the town council has auctioned plots of land at token prices to attract new residents. With 16 inhabitants, the town featured in the III Calendario de la España vacía in 2022.
Pedro Vindel, bibliophile
Curiosity
Alongside the 18th-century Jesuit Juan Manuel Blanco, Olmeda de la Cuesta was also the birthplace of the bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller Pedro Vindel Álvarez (1865-1921), who moved to Madrid as a child after being orphaned and learned to read and write at the age of sixteen. He devoted himself to the buying and selling of books and opened his own bookshop in 1893. Among his finds, the discovery stands out of two 13th-century Galician parchments containing the seven love cantigas of Martín Códax, known as the Pergamino Vindel, which after his death ended up in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. He also published several bibliographic works, including a catalogue of covers and colophons of rare books.