The semi-arid dry farmland of the Zapardiel Nature · San Vicente del Palacio, Tierra de Medina, Valladolid Image of San Vicente del Palacio, not of the place itself. The municipal district, of 37.94 square kilometres at 747 metres and bounded to the west by the Zapardiel, registers barely 394 millimetres of rain a year and an average of thirteen degrees: a dry farmland of almost steppe climate. Photo: Carbeal9969 (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in San Vicente del Palacio