The Roman Villa La Olmeda is a Roman villa located in the Spanish municipality of Pedrosa de la Vega, in the province of Palencia.

It was an agricultural holding in which two chronological phases differ; on the one hand a villa from the 1st century that lasted until the end of the 3rd century, and on the other the rebuilding of it in the 4th century - in a context of recovery that experienced its best moment between the governments of Constantine I and Theodosius I the Great - until it was destroyed and abandoned in the 6th century.

His remains were discovered in 1968, during work on land owned by Javier Cortes, who began his excavation privately.

In 1980 the site overflowed its possibilities so it reached an agreement with the Provincial Council of Palencia: a Foundation was created, which has been in charge of its management since then, and a cover was built for the remains that allowed its opening to the public in 1984.

After a competition for a new adaptation of the site, in which the architects Paredes and Pedrosa were winners, the new building opened to the public in April 2009.

The main building of the town has a square plan with four angular towers, octagonal on the south facade and square on the north. In the center there is a courtyard that was originally a peristyle but later the columns on the south side were replaced by a brick arcade and the remaining sides were closed with walls.

For its part, the bathroom building, joined to the house through a corridor, has two areas: on the one hand, a large circular room, whose use is unknown, and on the other, the changing room, through which you can access the different bath rooms: frigidarium, tepidarium and caldarium.

Among the remaining finds, it is worth highlighting the three necropolises found, which have provided more than 700 tombs belonging to different periods and abundant archaeological material thanks to the grave goods.

Possibly the town's greatest attraction is the set of mosaics that pave its floors, considered one of the most important in Spain.

Of all of them, the mosaic located in the oecus of the house stands out, consisting of a large border and a central scene with three different themes: a hunting scene, the legend of the discovery of Achilles by Ulysses when the first was hidden on the island of Skyros, and a border in which several medallions with portraits and a representation of the seasons of the year appear. A selection of the materials found in the excavations is exhibited in the monographic museum on La Olmeda, which in 1984 was installed in the church of San Pedro de Saldaña.