The Church San Andrés of Olmedo !!!

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We were back to my dear Spain again !! love it !! We came by car of course and took time to see new areas and old repeat with some of them as introduction to my sons and our dog Rex ! I rented a small house in a off the beaten path country town that was just perfect ! I like to continue the saga of our new road warrior experiences even if now with less in our family, This post is on my latest road warrior tour of wonderful sublime Spain.  Therefore, let me tell you about the Church San Andrés of Olmedo !!! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

The town of Olmedo is in the province of Valladolid in the autonomous community of Castilla Y-León in the kingdom of Spain, The city is a Mudejare architectural home. It is 60 km from my home base of Velliza, on the A6 and CL 602 roads, and 42 km from Valladolid ,and 147 km from Madrid, We were in town and parked by parking Plaza Mayor, superbe.

The Church San Andrés (St Andrews) is located at the Plaza San Andrés, 6 , Done in the 13C of Romanesque style. The Church is one nave with a cover to the feet topped by a semicircular head that on the outside forms a beautiful apse that follows the constructive and decorative traces of the Mudejar Castilian, in its basement it uses the masonry stone on which a brick creates a brick triple archery and a delicate entablature. The gospel wall opens a cover in 1559, thanks to a half -point arch to which a niche to auctioned in a triangular pediment is superimposed. In the 14C, a chapel under the invocation of San Sebastián, the patronage of this chapel was carried out , and in it the nobles of the so -called “lineage of outside” met (the other lineage “those inside “They had their meetings in the Chapel of Santa Catalina in the missing Church of San Pedro). Inside the chapel there is a beautiful grave made in the 14C marked from a clear Muslim mood. The grave embedded in the wall has a rich Arabesco decoration on both the front and in the alfiz that frames the horseshoe arch. The two bodies tower, amended in the 17C, uses brick and concrete as construction materials. The Church was covered in the 18C by a barrel vault decorated with plastering to taste of the time.

Olmedo ch San Andres back dec24

Inside the Church San Andrés ,there was one of the best exponents creating a magnificent altarpiece for the convent of the Mejorana, which after the vicissitudes of the confiscation period passes in October 1840 to this church , but this would not be its final location since the sinking of the roof of San Andrés caused it to be transferred again in 1932 to its current place in the National Museum of Sculpture of Valladolid. Also in this museum are today the graves of Don Diego and Don Luis de Soto remaining only one of the pages that adorned these graves.

The Olmedo tourist office on the Church San Andrés : https://www.olmedo.es/villadeolmedo/desarrollo.php?art_id=764

The town of Olmedo on its heritage: https://olmedo.ayuntamientosdevalladolid.es/el-municipio/de-interes-turistico

The Castilla y Léon regional tourist office on Olmedo : https://www.turismocastillayleon.com/es/patrimonio-cultura/ruta-6-centro-tramo-2/etapas/olmedo

There you go folks , another wonderful nostalgic, sentimental trip to my dear Spain, Do not know when we will be back, we sure will have this trip in our hearts forever, Again, hope you enjoy this post on the Church San Andrés of Olmedo !!! as I

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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