Sasamón

Sasamón is a northern Spanish town in the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile -Leon. The site has been recognized as a National Treasure ( Bien de Interès Cultural ) in the category Conjunto histórico - artístico.

Location

Sasamón is located near the Rio Brullés about 33 kilometers north west of Burgos and only about 12 kilometers north of the main route of the Camino. The municipality ( municipio ) includes the formerly independent villages Castrillo, Citores, Olmillos, Villandiego Villasidro and Yudego - all with about 50 to 200 residents.

Demographics

In the 19th century the population was always well over two thousand people.

Economy

Sasamón was for centuries the craft and mercantile center of a large number of individual farms, hamlets and small villages in the agrarian countryside. Tourism plays hardly any role, although Sasamón by its agricultural products ( esp. cheese and meat specialties ) has gained some visitors in recent years.

History

The story of Sasamón and its surrounding area can probably be traced back to Celtiberian origins. From Roman place names are as Segisamone or Segisama narrated in which the reign of Emperor Augustus a legion was stationed, which should pacify the not yet conquered territories in the north of the Iberian Peninsula and Romanize. Just outside the resort could be the remains of the Roman road from Saragossa ( Caesar Augusta) identify to Astorga ( Asturica Augusta).

In the 11th century Sancho II made the city a bishopric, which, however did not last long and was moved to Burgos, whose bishop, however, a long way off the title, Bishop of Burgos and Sasamón ' led. In the 15th century the city was a defensive wall. During the Napoleonic Wars in 1812 the parish church and the town hall were set on fire and completely destroyed in the year.

Attractions

In the core area of Sasamón sights are hardly a remnant of historical significance - only a remnant of the city wall and several stone houses with coats of arms attest to the importance of the medieval city.

• The former collegiate church ( colegiata ) Santa María la Real is on an elongated space in the center. It is a building in the Gothic style with an imposing Südquerhausportal with a richly structured jamb with Archivolts and a superbly maintained tympanum with an unusual image program: This is - beside the enthroned Christ and the Tetramorph ( symbols of the Evangelists ) - four people to write or lecterns, the are surrounded by angels. In the Archivolts Engel found with candlesticks and censers, and the elders of the Apocalypse (Rv 4-5 EU); in the stone lintels sit the twelve apostles - the fourth from the right is the beardless John. The Cloister ( claustro ) dates from the mid-15th century; while his Traceries of arcades have a rather retarding character, his figurative jewelry is ( Konsolfiguren ) completely on the amount of time. Also noteworthy is another portal on the south side of the church in the Elizabethan style of the early 16th century; it is the Master Simon of Cologne attributed to the - as the successor of his father John of Cologne - mainly at the Cathedral of Burgos worked. The interior of the church has been converted into a museum, which are shown in Roman and medieval objects.

Cloister ( claustro )

Angels with Bagpipes

Angel with Lute

• In about 1.5 kilometers south suburb Olmillos de Sasamón a late medieval castle (Castillo de los Cartagena ) rises from the 15th century in a very good state of preservation. It was converted into a hotel with adjoining restaurant.
• Also worth seeing is the three-nave late Gothic hall church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción with an exceptionally rich decorated star or vaulting.

• The single Hermit Church ( Ermita del Humilladero or San Isidro ) from the 16th and 18th centuries to keep an exceptional approximately 6.15 meters high stone cross of triumph from the year 1521. It shows a (life) tree with severed branches, its trunk is entwined by a serpent with a human head. On the front, two Old Testament scenes can be seen: the fall of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain's murder of Abel. At the bottom is the hl. Margaret of Antioch represented by their iconography associated dragon at her feet - probably the patron saint of the unknown benefactor. Above the crown of leaves rises a crucifix, which symbolizes the victory of Christianity over the sins of the Old Testament. On the back of the cross there is a representation of Marie with the two - summarized here - Threads of the Assumption and the Coronation and a figure of St.. Catherine of Alexandria by bike The rib- vaulted apse behind the cross bears the altar with a baroque altarpiece. A carved figure of St. Isidro was stolen in the 1990s and replaced by another.
• The slightly pointed and repeatedly downgraded portal arch ( Arco de Mazarreros ) is the last remnant of the Church of the discontinued in the 19th century and completely submerged the village of San Miguel de Mazarreros. The set of columns Portalgewändes have disappeared; some capitals are still present in poor condition.
• Two stone bridges from Roman or medieval period lead on the - most of the year, dry and reedy - Río Brullés.

Arco de Mazarreros

Roman Bridge (?)

Roman Bridge (?)