Olmedo, Valladolid

Olmedo is a municipality in the province of Valladolid, Spain. The Mudéjar theme park is located here.

History
Historically, there was a Jewish community in Olmedo in the Middle Ages, up until the 1492 expulsion of the Jews.

Museums

 * Palacio Caballero de Olmedo.
 * Parque temático del Mudéjar de Castilla y León.

Transport
Olmedo is on the N-601 road (Adanero-Olmedo-Valladolid–Medina de Rioseco–León).

The Madrid–Valladolid high-speed rail line runs through the municipality, and Olmedo is planned to be the branching point for the high-speed line running to Zamora and Galicia.

Olmedo is at one end of a 14.4km test track for high speed trains, and the Talgo gauge changer system. Medina del Campo is at the other end.

Gastronomy

 * Cuisine of the province of Valladolid

Notable people

 * Juan de Sarmiento, member of the Council of the Orders and historian of the Order of Alcántara;
 * Ignacio Ortega y Cortés, member of the Council of the Orders and assistant to Diego de Covarrubias.
 * Sebastián Cortés y Cárcel, jurist;
 * Brother Bartolomé Ochaita, advisor to Hernán Cortés;
 * Alonso de Zuazo (1466–1539), judge and governor of New Spain;
 * Juan Jiménez de Montalvo (1551–?), judge of the Royal Audiencia of Lima (1598–?) and acting Viceroy of Peru (1621–22);
 * Jerónimo de Alderete (1516–56), conqueror of Chile;
 * Julio Valdeón Baruque (1936–2009), historian;
 * José Antonio González Caviedes (1938–1996), mayor of Olmedo and Senator for the UPD and later for the Popular Party
 * Miriam González Durántez (1968–), lawyer, wife of Nick Clegg (Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2010–15), daughter of José Antonio González Caviedes.