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Municipality
Vega de Bur
Vega de Bur is a small town located in the fertile lowlands of the Burejo River that belongs to the municipality of Olmos de Ojeda.
Visiting the St. Vincent's church in the town centre is a must. The building is an interesting structure that was originally Romanesque but, after undergoing a renovation in the 15th century, it added Gothic style elements. The church has a single nave, square chancel, and buttresses. There is a Gothic window with five archivolts at the top of the chancel, decorated with leaves and two columns that support the decorated tympanum under a lattice.
The Romanesque entrance has two simple archivolts and a checkered archivolt with a saw-tooth canopy. The interior is covered with star-shaped ribbed ceiling with various altarpieces and images, including a 12th century Romanesque one, Nuestra Señora del Rebollar.
Not far from town is the cemetery, where the old 13th century Romanesque doorway of the church of St. Tirso has been moved, which is located in the uninhabited village of Medinilla. This doorway has archivolts decorated with honeycombs, checkered patterns and acanthus, ball canopy and plant-decorated capitals.
Also in the area of Castillo de la Vega is the chapel of Nuestra Señora del Rebollar, patron saint of La Ojeda, and a shrine dedicated to Nuestra Señora de la Piedad, where it is believed that the castle of Ebur used to be, which appears in several documents as early as 967. This castle was of great importance in the defence of La Ojeda until it was replaced by the castle of Herrera de Pisuerga in the 12th century.