ANCIENT TRADES AND GUILDS IN CASTILE AND LEÓN. LOOKING INTO THE PAST

As life has changed considerably since the medieval period, and from the 16th to the 18th or 19th centuries, many of those work scenes have already disappeared or their activities only survive in artisanal memory. There are still many bakers and cooks working in the hospitality industry, and jewelers, and still quite a few potters and ceramists, but there are increasingly fewer stonemasons dedicated to stone or clay, tailors, dressmakers or hat makers dedicated to the production of wool textiles, sawyers and coopers dedicated to the world of wood, shearers, leatherworkers and tanners who treat leather with care, saddlers and shoemakers who toil around the production of fine footwear, blacksmiths and farriers linked to their anvils and bellows, good esparto makers, cedaceros or basket makers, metallurgical swordsmen who polish bladed weapons, expert carters and transporters (and not mere removal vehicles) or those esteemed masters of "first letters" and inked booksellers related to the infinite universe of letters, school, books and pioneering newspapers. And barbershops and hairdressers, medicine, the appeal of traveling music and theaters, the importance of wax and the overseas arrival of spices, the art of bullfighting and bullfighting, as well as "a thousand and one other trades" linked to the work of watchmakers, guitarists, toymakers, and so many others related to "public or domestic service," so present daily on the streets of our Castilian cities, have evolved enormously. Specifically, more than one hundred and fifty trades are detailed, grouped into 27 thematic sections.