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Vivar, or Vivar del Cid, is a village of approximately 260 inhabitants, part of the municipality of Quintanilla Vivar, located 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) away from Burgos, Spain.

Tradition holds that the village was the birthplace of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, as first written in the Castilian epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid.

Celebrations

San Antonio de Padua (June 13)
Homage celebrations to D. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar. July. (Medieval dinners).
Maundy Thursday procession. (The three falls of Christ).
Patron saint: Saint Michael Arcangel, 29 November.

Monuments

Church of Saint Michael
Monument to El Cid Campeador at the Solar del Cid.
Convent of Nuestra Señora del Espino: Founded by Pedro López Padilla and his wife Isabel Pacheco Padilla in 1477. The manuscript of the Cantar de mio Cid (Lay of the Cid) was kept in its library. Nowadays it is at the National Library.
The Cid's windmill: starting point of the Camino del Cid.

References

Vivar del Cid, vivardelcid.com, Retrieved 19 March 2018

External links

v t e Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ("El Cid")
Reign	Prince of Valencia (1094–1099)
Battles	Battle of Graus (1063) Battle of Llantada (1068) Battle of Golpejera (1072) Battle of Cabra (1079) Battle of Almenar (1082) Battle of Morella (1084–1088) Siege of Valencia (1092–1094) Battle of Cuarte (1094) Battle of Bairén (1097)
Swords	Tizona Colada
Family	Jimena Díaz (wife) Diego Rodríguez (son) Cristina Rodríguez (daughter) María Rodríguez (daughter) García Ramírez of Navarre (grandson) Diego Fernández of Oviedo (father-in-law)
Places	Camino del Cid (cultural itinerary) Tomb of El Cid and Doña Jimena (tomb) Torrecid (camp) Vivar del Cid (birthplace)
Historical sources	Carmen Campidoctoris (epic poem, c. 1083) Ibn Alqama (historian, c. 1100) Ibn Bassam (historian, c. 1109) Historia Roderici (chronicle, c. 1181–1190) Crónica particular del Cid (biography, 1512)
Depictions	Cantar de mio Cid (cantar de gesta, c. 1140–1207) Mocedades de Rodrigo (cantar de gesta, c. 1360) Crónica popular del Cid (biography, 1498) Le Cid (tragicomedy, 1637) Le Cid (opera, 1885) El Cid Campeador (sculpture, 1927) El Cid (film, 1961) Ruy, the Little Cid (animated series, 1980) Rodrigue et Chimène (opera, 1993) El Cid: The Legend (animated film, 2003) El Cid (TV series, 2020)

42°25′0″N 3°41′0″W / 42.41667°N 3.68333°W / 42.41667; -3.68333

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