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What to see and do in San Cebrián de Mudá

What to see and do in San Cebrián de Mudá (Montaña Palentina, Palencia): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Historical milestones

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European Bison Reserve 600 m

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What to see and do in San Cebrián de Mudá

San Cebrián de Mudá
Village
San Cebrián de Mudá is a municipality in Palencia province with about 145 inhabitants, at 1,152 metres above sea level, which also includes the hamlets of Perapertú, San Martín de Perapertú, Valle de Santullán and Vergaño. Together with neighbouring Mudá it forms the valle de Mudá, one of the wildest and least developed areas of northern Castile and León. The village traditionally lived off coal and today is banking on rural tourism, with an astronomical observatory and, since June 2010, a European bison interpretation centre that began with seven animals brought from the Białowieża Forest in Poland, joined in 2012 by six more from the Netherlands. Its church of San Cornelio y San Cipriano, of Romanesque origin from the 12th century, is notable for its bell gable and holds restored 15th-century murals.
European Bison Reserve
Nature
The European Bison Reserve, in San Cebrián de Mudá (Palencia), is the only national reserve for European bison in Spain. It has an interpretation centre and two estates where, besides the bison, Przewalski's horses and Losino horses can also be seen. It opened on 4 June 2010 with a bison museum and a 20-hectare enclosure into which seven specimens were released, five females and two males, from the Polish forest of Białowieża; just two months later two calves had already been born. In June 2012, six more bison were added, five females and one male, arriving from the Dutch reserve of Oostvaardersplassen, intended for a future Quaternary park. The European bison is the continent's most endangered large wild herbivore.
Arrival of the bison in the Montaña Palentina
Historical milestone
On 4 June 2010 seven bison brought from Poland were released into the enclosure; two of the females arrived pregnant and their calves, named Ciprés and Cipra, were the first born in the mountains.
Gothic paintings of San Cornelio y San Cipriano
Monument
The church on the main square preserves one of the most important ensembles of Gothic mural painting in the north of Palencia, attributed to the so-called Master of San Felices, covering the interior walls of the church.