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What to see and do in Valbuena de Duero

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

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Historical milestones

How far each place is from the centre of Valbuena de Duero

Monastery of Santa María de Valbuena 2.9 km

Towns near Valbuena de Duero

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What to see and do in Valbuena de Duero

Valbuena de Duero
Village
Valbuena de Duero is a municipality of Valladolid province in the Campo de Peñafiel area, on the right bank of the Duero, with 385 inhabitants and the hamlet of San Bernardo. In the 1950s it lived through the paradox that, while the Servicio de Concentración Parcelaria (Land Consolidation Service) was joining its lands together, the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (National Colonisation Institute) was dividing the San Bernardo estate into lots for settlers; around 1965, the Explotación Agrícola Monte Alto became the first Spanish livestock farm with Certified Milk accreditation. The whole town was once walled, and from that enclosure survives the access arch, adjoined on one side by the 16th-17th-century church of Santa María la Mayor del Castillo and on the other by the town hall. It also preserves the 17th-century hermitage of San Roque, with a stone cross in front of its façade.
Monastery of Santa María de Valbuena
Monument
A Cistercian monastery founded around 1143 by Estefanía Armengol, daughter of Count Armengol V of Urgel and granddaughter of Count Pedro Ansúrez, on the flood plain of the Duero, in what is now the municipality of Valbuena de Duero. Its first monks came from the French abbey of Berdona, itself a daughter house of Morimond. From this monastery came the foundations of Rioseco in 1148, Bonaval in 1164 and Palazuelos in 1169. With the Mendizábal Confiscation only its church remained standing and in use, becoming the parish of the hamlet of San Bernardo. Declared a monument in 1931, in 1967 the archbishopric of Valladolid acquired the monastic buildings, and in the late 1990s the complex passed to the Las Edades del Hombre Foundation; today it operates as a five-star spa hotel of the Castilla Termal chain.
The sale of the monastery of Valbuena
Historical milestone
After the 1836 disentailment, the businessman Juan Pardo bought the Monasterio de Valbuena de Duero for 250,000 reales; today the property belongs to the Archbishopric of Valladolid and is on loan to the foundation that organizes the Las Edades del Hombre exhibitions.