Valdeolmos-Alalpardo

Valdeolmos-Alalpardo
Municipality

Municipal location within the Community of Madrid.
Country  Spain
Autonomous community Community of Madrid
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Valdeolmos-Alalpardo is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain and has a population of 2389. 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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