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What to see and do in Valdeolivas

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

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What to see and do in Valdeolivas

Valdeolivas
Village
Municipality of the comarca of La Alcarria Conquense, in the province of Cuenca, whose church of la Asunción is a Romanesque temple with a four-stage tower, the first plain and the rest separated by cornices with paired pointed windows, and preserves inside fourteenth-century wall paintings in the transition from Romanesque to Gothic. In the mid-nineteenth century it counted 1,319 inhabitants spread over some four hundred houses and eight narrow streets, and today it barely exceeds two hundred.
Church of la Asunción de Valdeolivas
Monument
Romanesque church of Valdeolivas, in the comarca of La Alcarria Conquense (Cuenca). It consists of a main nave, a semicircular apse at the head and the tower at the foot, as well as a nave attached to the south side with two chapels and a porch. The apse stands out for its three buttresses formed by bundles of three columns, topped with ringed capitals at the level of the cornice. The tower, square in plan, has four levels: the first plain and blind, and the other three separated by cornices with twin pointed windows; the last is topped with a 16th-century cornice. It is considered a notable example of medieval Christian architecture in the province. On 15 January 1982 it was declared a historic-artistic monument by royal decree, and today it is a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection).
The Gothic paintings of Valdeolivas
Curiosity
The interior of the apse of the parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Valdeolivas preserves 14th-century mural paintings, in a transitional style between Romanesque and Gothic. They depict God in Majesty blessing within a mystic mandorla, surrounded by the tetramorph with the symbols of the four evangelists and flanked by apostles.
The Valdeolivas of 1,300 residents
Curiosity
In the mid-19th century the village had a census of 332 households and 1,319 souls, spread across some four hundred modestly built houses and eight somewhat narrow, poorly cobbled streets; today it barely exceeds two hundred inhabitants, with 206 currently registered.