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What to see and do in Olmos de Esgueva

What to see and do in Olmos de Esgueva (Páramos del Esgueva, Valladolid): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Activities

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The holm oak groves of the Olmos plateau 3.5 km

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What to see and do in Olmos de Esgueva

Olmos de Esgueva
Village
Olmos de Esgueva is a municipality in the Páramos del Esgueva, in the province of Valladolid, situated on the left bank of the river Esgueva, at an altitude of 735 metres and 17.5 kilometres from the capital, reached by the VA-140 road. It has 187 inhabitants, compared with 137 in the mid-19th century. Its parish church of San Pedro Apóstol, from the 17th century, is built of stone with three naves, groin and barrel vaults decorated with plasterwork; nearby stands the chapel of Nuestra Señora del Pozobueno, from the same century. On 8 September the village holds a pilgrimage in which this Virgin is carried in procession, and on 15 May it celebrates San Isidro.
The church of San Pedro Apóstol de Olmos
Monument
A seventeenth-century stone fabric with three naves covered by ribbed vaults; the side vaults are decorated with plasterwork, a device much repeated in the churches of the valley of the Esgueva.
The pilgrimage of Nuestra Señora del Pozobueno
Activity
On 8 September the residents climb in pilgrimage to the hermitage of Nuestra Señora del Pozobueno, built in stone and of a single nave in the last third of the seventeenth century, to celebrate the patronal feast out in the fields.
The holm oak groves of the Olmos plateau
Nature
At 735 metres and on the left bank of the Esgueva, 17.5 kilometres from Valladolid, the municipal district combines plain, slope and moorland, and preserves on the heights patches of holm oak wood that resisted the clearing for cereal.