There is no doubt that the discovery of the supposed remains of the Apostle Saint James the Greater and the subsequent erection of a superb sanctuary to contain them, marked the beginning of a period of light for travel, commerce and architecture.
Little less than closed tightly since the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the old roads, which in many cases had also been built on pilgrimage routes used by past cultures, were reopened.
And in doing so, the West, until then plunged into the darkness of the High Medieval period, came to know again the advantages of a traffic, both of pilgrims and commercial and specialized, which was to be the precedent of a new cultural resurgence.
Through the reopened roads, numerous companies of stonemasons crossed the Pyrenees through the same port of Ibañeta, annexed to Roncesvalles, where the Carolingian army of Charlemagne succumbed, sowing elements that would constitute a milestone on the roads of pilgrimage: monasteries, churches, hermitages, hospitals.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the most abundant art was the Romanesque and that within it, there are so many similarities between its enigmatic elements, which connect it with different countries, being the most numerous and those with the greatest coincidences, the from France and Spain.
Within the limits of the Camino de Santiago as it passes through the arid Palencia Gothic Fields, there is a town, Frómista, whose church dedicated to the figure of San Martín de Tours - you will recognize him quickly, because generally he is usually represented sharing his cape with a poor- it is put in all the manuals as an example of the purest and most spectacular Romanesque.
A church, which itself constitutes a small stone encyclopedia, with its dozens of beautiful capitals carved with countless allegorical motifs - including the one representing the well-known fable of the raven and the fox - and the not inconsiderable amount of more than three hundred corbels , which also has in its interior an enigmatic Black Virgin - the Virgin of the Way - and a beautiful Gothic Christ, which enjoy a special devotion on the part of the pilgrims who undertake these difficult stages in the direction of Santiago de Compostela.
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