Valbuena de Duero is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid

Valladolid (province)

Valladolid is a province of central/northwest Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Zamora, León, Palencia, Burgos, Segovia, Ávila, and Salamanca....

, Castile and León

Castile and León

Castile and León is an autonomous community in north-western Spain. It was so constituted in 1983 and it comprises the historical regions of León and Old Castile...

, Spain

Spain

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. According to the 2004 census

Census

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 (INE

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)

The National Institute of Statistics is the official organisation in Spain that collects statistics about demography, economy, and Spanish society. Every 10 years, this organisation conducts a national census. The last census took place in 2001....

), the municipality has a population of 502 inhabitants.

Villages

San Bernardo is a village within Valbuena de Duero municipality. It was founded in the 1950s by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización

Instituto Nacional de Colonización

The Instituto Nacional de Colonización y Desarrollo Rural, , was the administrative entity that was established by the Spanish Dictatorship in October 1939, shortly after the end of the Spanish Civil War, in order to repopulate certain areas of Spain...

. Its inhabitants came from Santa María de Poyos, a town in Guadalajara Province that was submerged by the waters of the Embalse de Buendía reservoir

Reservoir

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Presently there is a Ribera del Duero

Ribera del Duero

Ribera del Duero is a Spanish Denominación de Origen located in the country's northern plateau and is one of eleven 'quality wine' regions within the autonomous community of Castile and León...

 DO wine cellar in San Bernardo named after the village.

The Valbuena Abbey

Valbuena Abbey

Valbuena Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in Valbuena de Duero in Valladolid Province, Castile-Leon, Spain. It stands on the right bank of the Duero, within sight of the royal castle of Peñafiel.- History :...

is located within the limits of Valbuena de Duero municipality.