Beyond the hospitality recommended and practiced in the West since Classical Greece giving a private or public inn to the traveler,[7]​ and the title of work of mercy with which Christianity rewarded the gesture of giving asylum, shelter or inn to the pilgrim, the inn as an official establishment ("cauponae") is situated in the time of Augustus,[8]​ as a stopping or pause point (parador) on the way.[9]​ The practical sense of Roman policy aimed more at the security of the imperial couriers and the post office (to feed, rest or change horses) than to the needs of potential travelers of the time. The archaeological remains have allowed us to stipulate that the inns were located every 24 miles (about 35 kilometers, given that each Roman mile corresponds to 1,480 meters), different types being known, such as "mansions" and "mutationes", in addition to the aforementioned "cauponas".[10] The Roman road regulations, however, encouraged the commercial spirit of the landowners who owned the land through which the road passed; a lodging network that was preserved by the medieval Roman routes,[11]​ and the travelers of the Camino de Santiago.

During the Middle Ages, the management and maintenance of pilgrim inns would be regulated by abbots of monasteries and by the bishops themselves.[12] Over the centuries, lodging houses have been differentiated with different names: inn, inn, inn and inn; although the catalog is quite confusing.[13]​[14]​ Equal confusion is documented in the chronicles of foreign travelers in and through Spain from .[15]​.

As a building or establishment – ​​and with the often imprecise name of posada –, the inn presents a wide catalog and typology, generally associated with the country or region where it is located.[16]​ In the context of traditional Spanish architecture,[17]​ this variety is documented from the preserved buildings, be it a corrala as in the case of the Posada del Potro in Córdoba; a pseudo-guild building from the 19th century, like the Posada de la Santa Hermandad in the city of the Three Cultures "Toledo (Spain)"); the San Julián inn, a traditional travelers' house dating back to the 19th century, in the capital of Cuenca "Cuenca (Spain)"); the Posada del Rosario, a typically La Mancha mule shop similar to the roadside inns, like the one preserved and restored in the capital of Albacete; and various other buildings, sometimes inn, sometimes inn, sometimes inn.[16]​[18]​.

Contenido

Otra fuente documental tan variopinta como entretenida es la que puede extraerse de la abundante literatura de viajes que provocó la península ibérica en los viajeros del Romanticismo y sus continuadores,[19]​ desde el veneciano Giacomo Casanova, hasta Edmundo de Amicis, pasando por Victor Hugo;[18]​ todos ellos, y como ellos otros muchos han dejado magistrales páginas sobre las posadas españolas y sus posaderos.[20]​ De tan amplio catálogo, pueden recordarse descripciones culinarias de ‘gourmet’ como la que dejó Theophile Gautier en su Viaje por España (1840):.

A Starkie Inn

It seems recognized that the Irish Hispanist Walter Starkie, “knight-errant of the violin” (as Antonio Espina called him), was one of the most distinguished travelers in the classical manner in Spain in the first third of the century, and following in the footsteps of George Borrow. His is one of the most plastic and psychological descriptions of a Spanish inn, that of Pancorbo in the north of the province of Burgos, on the border of Castilla with the Vascongadas. Arriving in the town after having spent the previous night outdoors, he found the establishment on the outskirts of the town (between the road and the train track), "a rather dilapidated Castilian workhouse" and wondering "In what category of Spanish hotels" would that establishment be classified, which, upon passing through the door, he considered an inn, which "according to Castilian tradition" had its ground floor for mules and cattle, a dark space through which he groped and slipped on the floors. animal feces. A staircase took him to the first floor, where he was surprised by the "comfort." Along the wall of the corridor, which ran from one end of the house to the other, were old Spanish chairs and a carved chest; In the kitchen there were many shiny coffee pots and pots; The dining room was pleasant and the bedroom, with its window overlooking an orchard, boasted a magnificent double bed, with clean sheets and a bright duvet. (...) No, it was not an inn or a parador, because a parador is just a place to stop for a few hours..."[21]​.

Points of view

In line with the bad reputation of Spanish inns, and the reliability of the descriptions of foreign travelers, the paragraphs that Leandro Fernández de Moratín dedicates in his memoirs to the movement of trips and travelers through Italian and Spanish inns may be illustrative, and which can be read in his book Voyage to Italy, lived around 1795, and published in 1867, forty years after his death.[22][23]​.

There would be no doubt, however, about the honesty of Moratín, who pages later, and again in Spain, makes this portrait of an Andalusian inn:

proverb

Also frequent in popular literature of proverbs, reflections and advice; Thus, for example in these sayings, proverbs and expressions from the treasure of oral and written tradition:[24]​[25]​.

The symbol of the horse frequently appears associated with inns, to give them their name or appear on their signs. This is how he remembers it, for example: The White Horse Inn (German operetta from 1930); equine iconography that Tolkien also uses in his description of the Prancing Pony inn.

Beyond the hospitality recommended and practiced in the West since Classical Greece giving a private or public inn to the traveler,[7]​ and the title of work of mercy with which Christianity rewarded the gesture of giving asylum, shelter or inn to the pilgrim, the inn as an official establishment ("cauponae") is situated in the time of Augustus,[8]​ as a stopping or pause point (parador) on the way.[9]​ The practical sense of Roman policy aimed more at the security of the imperial couriers and the post office (to feed, rest or change horses) than to the needs of potential travelers of the time. The archaeological remains have allowed us to stipulate that the inns were located every 24 miles (about 35 kilometers, given that each Roman mile corresponds to 1,480 meters), different types being known, such as "mansions" and "mutationes", in addition to the aforementioned "cauponas".[10] The Roman road regulations, however, encouraged the commercial spirit of the landowners who owned the land through which the road passed; a lodging network that was preserved by the medieval Roman routes,[11]​ and the travelers of the Camino de Santiago.

During the Middle Ages, the management and maintenance of pilgrim inns would be regulated by abbots of monasteries and by the bishops themselves.[12] Over the centuries, lodging houses have been differentiated with different names: inn, inn, inn and inn; although the catalog is quite confusing.[13]​[14]​ Equal confusion is documented in the chronicles of foreign travelers in and through Spain from .[15]​.

As a building or establishment – ​​and with the often imprecise name of posada –, the inn presents a wide catalog and typology, generally associated with the country or region where it is located.[16]​ In the context of traditional Spanish architecture,[17]​ this variety is documented from the preserved buildings, be it a corrala as in the case of the Posada del Potro in Córdoba; a pseudo-guild building from the 19th century, like the Posada de la Santa Hermandad in the city of the Three Cultures "Toledo (Spain)"); the San Julián inn, a traditional travelers' house dating back to the 19th century, in the capital of Cuenca "Cuenca (Spain)"); the Posada del Rosario, a typically La Mancha mule shop similar to the roadside inns, like the one preserved and restored in the capital of Albacete; and various other buildings, sometimes inn, sometimes inn, sometimes inn.[16]​[18]​.

Contenido

Otra fuente documental tan variopinta como entretenida es la que puede extraerse de la abundante literatura de viajes que provocó la península ibérica en los viajeros del Romanticismo y sus continuadores,[19]​ desde el veneciano Giacomo Casanova, hasta Edmundo de Amicis, pasando por Victor Hugo;[18]​ todos ellos, y como ellos otros muchos han dejado magistrales páginas sobre las posadas españolas y sus posaderos.[20]​ De tan amplio catálogo, pueden recordarse descripciones culinarias de ‘gourmet’ como la que dejó Theophile Gautier en su Viaje por España (1840):.

A Starkie Inn

It seems recognized that the Irish Hispanist Walter Starkie, “knight-errant of the violin” (as Antonio Espina called him), was one of the most distinguished travelers in the classical manner in Spain in the first third of the century, and following in the footsteps of George Borrow. His is one of the most plastic and psychological descriptions of a Spanish inn, that of Pancorbo in the north of the province of Burgos, on the border of Castilla with the Vascongadas. Arriving in the town after having spent the previous night outdoors, he found the establishment on the outskirts of the town (between the road and the train track), "a rather dilapidated Castilian workhouse" and wondering "In what category of Spanish hotels" would that establishment be classified, which, upon passing through the door, he considered an inn, which "according to Castilian tradition" had its ground floor for mules and cattle, a dark space through which he groped and slipped on the floors. animal feces. A staircase took him to the first floor, where he was surprised by the "comfort." Along the wall of the corridor, which ran from one end of the house to the other, were old Spanish chairs and a carved chest; In the kitchen there were many shiny coffee pots and pots; The dining room was pleasant and the bedroom, with its window overlooking an orchard, boasted a magnificent double bed, with clean sheets and a bright duvet. (...) No, it was not an inn or a parador, because a parador is just a place to stop for a few hours..."[21]​.

Points of view

In line with the bad reputation of Spanish inns, and the reliability of the descriptions of foreign travelers, the paragraphs that Leandro Fernández de Moratín dedicates in his memoirs to the movement of trips and travelers through Italian and Spanish inns may be illustrative, and which can be read in his book Voyage to Italy, lived around 1795, and published in 1867, forty years after his death.[22][23]​.

There would be no doubt, however, about the honesty of Moratín, who pages later, and again in Spain, makes this portrait of an Andalusian inn:

proverb

Also frequent in popular literature of proverbs, reflections and advice; Thus, for example in these sayings, proverbs and expressions from the treasure of oral and written tradition:[24]​[25]​.

The symbol of the horse frequently appears associated with inns, to give them their name or appear on their signs. This is how he remembers it, for example: The White Horse Inn (German operetta from 1930); equine iconography that Tolkien also uses in his description of the Prancing Pony inn.