Plaza Mío Cid Live Cam

In the mid-15th century, the prospects of the inhabitants of Burgos changed once again, this time for the better. New fields were tilled, livestock herds were expanded, fields and grazing areas were better organized, wine-growing was selectively intensified, communications improved, the market, a sector in which Burgos would lead for more than a century, was buoyant, and efforts were made to enrich the area of culture with highly notable works of art. In terms of art, masterpieces abounded, in architecture as well as in the fields of sculpture and painting.

The styles followed one another relatively quickly, moving from Flemish Gothic in the 15th and start of the 16th centuries – seen in the spires and Condestable Chapel in the Catedral de Burgos, the cloister of the monastery of San Salvador de Oña, Santa María de Aranda de Duero – to the Renaissance – in the gilded staircase and dome of the Catedral de Burgos, palaces on the Burgos streets of Fernán González and Calera, Puerta de los Romeros of the Hospital del Rey. In this creative frenzy, ecclesiastical institutions competed with the nobility in their initiatives and desire for renewal, as was becoming the norm. These groups were also joined by the urban oligarchies, especially in the city of Burgos, which had earned great riches in the wool trade and were generously disposed to participating in the sponsorship of the arts in Burgos.