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What to see and do in Muriel de Zapardiel

What to see and do in Muriel de Zapardiel (Tierra de Medina, Valladolid): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Food and drink

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Church of Nuestra Señora del Castillo 50 m

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What to see and do in Muriel de Zapardiel

Muriel de Zapardiel
Village
Muriel de Zapardiel is a hamlet in the district of Tierra de Medina, in the province of Valladolid. Its church of Nuestra Señora del Castillo, or de la Asunción, in Romanesque-Mudéjar style, was built between the 11th and 12th centuries; beside it stands a freestanding tower believed to have belonged to a Templar commandery, as a watchtower of a civil nature. On 12 January 2026 the wall of the apse collapsed, leaving the church unsafe and closed to the public until it is rebuilt. In the mid-19th century the village had 393 inhabitants, compared with 106 today.
Church of Nuestra Señora del Castillo
Monument
The church of Nuestra Señora del Castillo, also known as that of the Assumption, stands in Muriel de Zapardiel (Valladolid) and is one of the most valuable Romanesque-Mudéjar churches in Castile and León, built between the 11th and 12th centuries and rebuilt in the 16th. Beside it, separate from the church, stands a civil watchtower which is believed to have formed part, in the Middle Ages, of a Templar commandery to which the whole complex belonged. The church is described in Pascual Madoz's Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico, and a scale model is preserved today at the Parque temático Mudéjar in Olmedo. Declared a Monumento Histórico-Artístico (a heritage-protection category that preceded today's BIC designation) in 1983, on 12 January 2026 a large part of the apse wall collapsed, leaving the church closed to the public.
The chickpeas of Muriel
Food and drink
In the middle of the nineteenth century Madoz noted an economy of cereals, chickpeas and livestock in a village of a hundred houses. The dry-farmed chickpea is still the characteristic pulse crop of these lands of the Zapardiel.