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What to see and do in Olmos de Peñafiel

What to see and do in Olmos de Peñafiel (Campo de Peñafiel, Valladolid): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Nature · 1 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Olmos de Peñafiel

Olmos de Peñafiel
Village
Olmos de Peñafiel is a hamlet of 35 inhabitants in the comarca of Campo de Peñafiel, province of Valladolid. Here, on 22 November 1823, the guerrilla fighter El Empecinado and his sixty men were captured, taken by the Battalion of Royalist Volunteers of Roa under the command of Commander Miguel Abad, who handed them over shortly afterwards, in Nava de Roa, to the mayor of Roa, Gregorio González Arranz. In the mid-19th century the hamlet had 196 inhabitants, according to the Diccionario geográfico of Pascual Madoz. It preserves the church of Santa Engracia.
The Botijas stream
Nature
The 16.07 square kilometres of the municipal district gather at 782 metres in a valley closed by hills and watered by the Botijas stream, with patches of oak wood that survive among the tilled lands.
The capture of the Empecinado
Historical milestone
Royalist volunteers arrived from Roa captured here on 22 November 1823 Juan Martín el Empecinado and sixty of his men, in the episode that put an end to his military career a few kilometers from his native village.