Founding of the monastery of la Vega Historical milestone · Renedo de la Vega, Vega-Valdavia, Palencia Image of Renedo de la Vega, not of the place itself. Rodrigo Rodríguez Girón and his wife Inés Pérez founded the monastery of Santa María de la Vega in 1215, one of the Cistercian centres of the Carrión basin during the Late Middle Ages. 1215 Photo: David Perez (CC BY 3.0) What to see and do in Renedo de la Vega