Valdeolmos-Alalpardo Explained

Valdeolmos-Alalpardo
Settlement Type:Municipality
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Pushpin Label Position:above
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Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Spain
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Spain
Subdivision Type1:Autonomous community
Subdivision Name1:Community of Madrid
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Km2:26.81
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
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Utc Offset Dst:+2
Elevation M:670

Valdeolmos-Alalpardo is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain. It comprises three separate blocks: Valdeolmos, Alalpardo and Miraval.

Alalpardo is famous for a live Nativity scene in which more than 200 people create images of the birth of Christ. Shepherds, Roman soldiers, craftspeople, fishermen, merchants, and live mules, donkeys, horses, hens, geese, sheep, pigs, ducks, and falcons are gathered together every year for two days over Christmas to create more than 20 Nativity scenes.

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