A Sepulveda, call the city of seven gates. For seven gates scholar called "the Force", "the Guerrilla", "Duruelo", "River", "the Quicksilver", "the Postiguillo" and "Ecce Homo". " In a non-expert, let alone a scholar, but a simple fan culture (life is too short to be an expert in something, to say Charles Chaplin), gives a little the same as calling the above doors and you just want to wander through this medieval village, on their own, without wanting to embrace everything, while waiting in dealing with the melee that claim to be the best barbecue in Spain.
Sepulveda as Toledo, Segovia, Granada, or many other cities and villages of old Spain, should be seen first by far in view, coming Turégano way. The view from the opposite side is surprising, to poke the city abruptly after the parched hills, emerging in the horizon the silhouettes of houses, palaces and churches.
Then, as in the population, it is best to aim at the square, starting point and destination of all travel. Closed its campus a happy "pastiche" formed by the remains of the castle at a time after which it has attached a front balcony on which abounds a great shield, and the clock that the slow pace of the hours. Tops it all a Baroque belfry bells. It's funny, in old photographs, forty years ago or more, I've seen on this auction, identical nests of storks that can now be seen. The rest of the square, old market, not detracts, forming a rather quaint.
Plaza Mayor
From here offer the traveler, which is priced time, two alternatives: stay to the right, skirting the wall, to transfer Ecce Homo door and visit the church of San Just where is the Museum of the Jurisdictions and, beyond, the shrine of Nuestra Señora de la Peña, patron of the town or determined, as does, to travel on the left to visit, after arduous ascent (and error, not the shortest path), the Romanesque church of El Salvador, the oldest of the town and the province of Segovia. In our march, we pause a moment to visit the ancient church of Santiago, currently used as a Centre of Interpretation of Nature and in whose crypt may be very old graves anthropomorphic.
finally arrived, "putting up the lights" at the foot of the church, located on top of a hill, monument praised by Gaya Nuño and the Marquis de Lozoya as genuinely English. " The factory, as we read, XI century and is therefore above the rest of the Romanesque churches of Segovia. The apse is of great purity and simplicity of lines, like the tower, free, two double hollow bodies and which are understood Romanesque influence Alto Aragón. But the most interesting of the church, in my opinion, is his portico, the oldest known, which in turn submits arches, pillars and columns surmounted by capitals of size somewhat barbaric. In some archivolts see the detail of the means areas, so tenacious in the art, it will reappear later in the era of the Catholic Kings.
Church of El Salvador. tower and apse
Church of El Salvador. Portico Just to visit the exterior of the church interior we have not been able to visit when closed and barred, and "shoot" photographs are offset suppression efforts. Down again to the plaza should have a look other places Sepulvedana flavored as the street Tetouan devoted to the painter Segovia Lope Tablada, where many taverns are located in the town, and whose term is the evocative set formed by the stairs, cruising home in the Renaissance and Romanesque church of San Bartolomé.
Church of San Bartolomé
It remains to say that Sepulveda is also noted for his "curiosities" artistic, there are many more of the so briefly told, is known in history by its medieval past and in particular the famous Charter of Sepulveda is in the history of the town, its most glorious timbre " 1 given by Count Sancho García, confirmed by King Alfonso VI in 1076 and Fernando "the Set" in 1305. According to the Marquis de Lozoya, this jurisdiction, the application was extended by the English Extremadura " Sepulveda was a republic whose freedom was moderated only by the supreme authority of the king ." He was an iron law, valid for a warrior society that contained provisions very hard as the power granted to residents of the village to kill with impunity to strangers plowing meddled in their term and were unruly or imprison few Foreigners Sepulvedana was hunting on land.
I can attest that the current Sepulvedana are much more affable to strangers who do not haggle a bit of pleasant conversation and seasoned. Among the famous sons of the town, have a glory bullfighter, Victoriano de la Serna, brave killer of the 30 and 40 of the past century that his countrymen have dedicated a street.
Very near Sepulveda, on the road to Pedraza, is a small village, Perorrubio, about 25 people, which has a beautiful Romanesque church whose greatest merit is his portico supported by arches resting on twin columns with capitals decorated with predominantly plant motifs that are inserted between the human heads, animals and monstrous figures. Contemplation is a true delight.
columns and capitals of the church of Perorrubio
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
September, 2010
September, 2010
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NOTES
1 Marquésde Lozoya. Sepúlveda . Publications of the Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Segovia, 1967 p.12
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