Frómista .

FRÓMISTA

Around 1066, according to the reference offered in the will of the Queen Doña Mayor, the Monastery of St. Martin with its Romanesque church is founded.

In 1118 the Queen Doña Urraca, owner of the monastery, and it donates its jurisdiction to the Benedictine monks of Carrion. From the twelfth century to the fifteenth century, Frómista was divided into two different jurisdictions: on the one hand, the ecclesiastical manor owned Abad Carrion on the San Martin, and secondly, the civil dominion exercised by the lords of Frómista on the rest of the villa. Among the latter, highlights Gomez Benavides, who in 1427 succeeded in unifying both jurisdictions, adding the district of San Martin to his dominion, and in 1436 founded the Monastery of Our Lady of Mercy, Benedictine monks.

On the other hand, in the late Middle Ages, in times of the Catholic Monarchs, we must place a work of art of great importance: the altarpiece of the church of Nuestra Señora del Castillo. The masterpieces of medieval art in Frómista and hospitals that had for pilgrims, are the result of the Camino de Santiago, the great cultural and spiritual route, linking Spain with the Christian West.

In medieval Frómista three reasons appear more fame have given to the people: San Telmo, the miracle and the Jews.