Valdeolmos-Alalpardo

Valdeolmos-Alalpardo
Municipality

Municipal location within the Community of Madrid.
Country  Spain
Autonomous community Community of Madrid
Area
  Total 10.35 sq mi (26.81 km2)
Elevation 2,200 ft (670 m)
Population (2017)
  Total 3,906
  Density 380/sq mi (150/km2)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

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.

Coordinates: 40°41′00″N 3°37′00″W / 40.6833°N 3.61667°W / 40.6833; -3.61667


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