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What to see and do in Mudá

What to see and do in Mudá (Montaña Palentina, Palencia): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments

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Church of San Martín de Mudá 50 m

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What to see and do in Mudá

Mudá
Village
Mudá is a hamlet in Palencia province with about eighty inhabitants, at 1,001 metres above sea level in the Montaña Palentina, where together with San Cebrián de Mudá it forms the Valle de Mudá. Its name may go back to an old muga or pre-Roman border; raised into a Visigothic stronghold after the invasions of the Cantabri and Suebi, it was resettled in the early 9th century by people from Cantabria and Asturias, and became the political centre of the area until the year 811. Documented since 1059, it later belonged to the abbey of Lebanza and, from the 13th century, to Santa María la Real de Aguilar de Campoo. It lived off coal until the 1980s, when the closure of its mines caused heavy emigration to the Basque Country and Madrid. Its Romanesque church of San Martín was restored in 2007 under the Románico Norte plan.
Church of San Martín de Mudá
Monument
The parish church of Mudá, declared a historic-artistic monument (a former national heritage designation, later folded into the Bien de Interés Cultural) in the 1990s, presides over this small village in the mining basin, situated about 120 kilometres from the provincial capital. The church was completely remodelled in the 16th century, although it retains remains of its original Romanesque fabric, which is why it is included in the Románico Norte group; it underwent a full restoration in 2007 as part of the Románico Norte Intervention Plan of the Junta de Castilla y León.