RE: [ENG-SPN] San Miguel de Gormaz: where time beautifies the stone / San Miguel de Gormaz: donde el tiempo embellece la piedra
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That note about the roving sto#nemasons starting from San Esteban de Gormaz and carrying the template beyond the Duero < really stuck with me. You can feel how a single workshop idea became a trail of kindred chapels across Segovia, turning geogrpahy into a story of hands and chisels, and I love that. History moving through craft like that makes time feel happily out of joint, a little mischievous even.
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Yes. Stonemasons scattered Spain with small stars, artisanal temples, which, in some cases, were mirrored in the stars. As kingdoms consolidated and new cities were established, stonemasons' guilds began to emerge, along with other artisan guilds that would be the prelude to modern markets.
totally, those small star temples feel like a sky mapped onto the land, with constelations traced in stone and memory. As the crowns settled, the guilds gave shared measures, symbols and trust, knitting the Duero routes with Segovia, Sepulveda and those buzzing fairs into the first true markets..
Indeed, one could say that's exactly what happened. In fact, in many large cities and towns, those first establishments, those first medieval fairs, are still remembered, recreating and giving a little more life to the practically vanished figure of the artisan. They are quite a spectacle.