Boecillo is a municipality located in the

province of Valladolid Valladolid () is a Provinces of Spain, province of northwest Spain, in the central part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Castile and León. It has a population of 520,716 people in a total of 225 munici ...

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

, Spain. As of 2018, the population is 4,154. It has its own casino, opened in 1986. It is located in the Palace of Condes de Gamazo, neoclassical building of the late nineteenth century, and was the residence of

Germán Gamazo Germán Gamazo y Calvo (28 May 1840, Boecillo – 22 November 1901, Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6 ...

. The Mayor is Pedro Luis Díez Ortega of the People's Party. Its

technology park A science park (also called a "university research park", "technology park”, "technopark", “technopole", or a "science and technology park" (STP)) is defined as being a property-based development that accommodates and fosters the growt ...

is one of the most important in northern Spain. It contains different companies, including a firm that collaborates with

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

, whose director is the Spanish astronaut

Pedro Duque Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE (Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who served as Minister of Science of the Government of Spain from 2018 to 2021. He was also Member of the Congress of Deputies fro ...

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Municipalities in the Province of Valladolid {{Valladolid-geo-stub

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