One of the key places on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela is the Palencia town of Frómista, considered an oasis nestled in the arid harshness of the so-called Gothic Fields or Tierra de Campos, also famous for being lavish in those two goods with which the road is walked: bread and wine.

In Frómista, despite numerous censures and restorations, the church that was the important monastery of San Martín de Tours survives, which in addition to being Historical, Artistic and Cultural Heritage is also considered, although perhaps in an exaggerated way, as the most beautiful example of Spanish Romanesque Art.

Apart from its obvious beauty, the church of San Martín, with its more than three hundred illustrated corbels, is such an amazing compendium of medieval psychology that it was not for nothing that it attracted the attention, at the time, of a father of Psychoanalysis, a detail that in the background is not ignored by the pilgrims who stop there, as well as at other relevant points along the way, since it is nothing new, that this is a path of learning and transcendence.

I will not stop to comment on the numerous and at the same time interesting mysteries that medieval stonemasons left deposited in that enduring material that is stone, but as I am moved by the opinion of a certain person to whom I have a lot of affection, I will simply leave a question in the air: What did they want to transcend, when they left a donkey represented playing an instrument as delicate as a harp?.

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