Tierra de Rueda between the Esla and the Payuelos Nature · Valdepolo, Tierras de León, León Image of Valdepolo, not of the place itself. Nine villages, among them Quintana de Rueda, Villamondrín and Saelices del Payuelo, share a plain of dry cereal farming dotted with small valleys that drains towards the Esla, on the eastern edge of the Tierra de León. Photo: Simon Burchell (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Valdepolo