The thousand-year-old elm of the square Curiosity · Salvador de Zapardiel, Tierra de Medina, Valladolid Image of Salvador de Zapardiel, not of the place itself. Beside the church of the Invención de la Santa Cruz an elm still stands to which a thousand years are attributed, a survivor of the Dutch elm disease that devastated the Castilian elm groves in the last third of the twentieth century. Photo: Rodelar (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Salvador de Zapardiel