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Municipality in Castile and Leon, Spain
Venta de Banos
is a small town and
municipality
of about 6,400 inhabitants located in the
Cerrato
district of the
province of Palencia
, part of the
autonomous community
of
Castile and Leon
in central Spain. It lies some 10 km south of the provincial capital,
Palencia
. Noteworthy monuments include the medieval
Church of San Juan Bautista
(St John the Baptist) which is believed to be
Visigothic
.
RENFE
(Spanish National Railways) and the Grupo SIRO food-sector company are the main employers in the municipality.
In popular culture and among Spanish railway travellers, Venta de Banos has traditionally had the same sort of iconic status as other great railway junctions of the world, such as
Crewe
in the UK. Before the advent of dedicated high-speed rail routes and cheaper air travel, it was the principal transfer point for travellers between the north-east and north-west regions of Spain and the south. Generations of railway passengers have memories of the waiting rooms and cafeteria at Venta de Banos.
The town hosts an annual international
cross country running
competition, the
Cross Internacional de Venta de Banos
, which has featured some of the world's foremost cross country athletes including
Kenenisa Bekele
and Palencian-born
Marta Dominguez
.
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