Custodia de Arfe

We loved it! Very very rich!

Custody of Arfe, ready to go.nnThere are plenty of words to present to our Custody of Arfe, waiting for the moment in the Treasure of the Cathedral, waiting for your moment to walk through the adorned and entwined streets of your Toledo, carpeted with thyme and rosemary.nSpeaking of the Corpus in Toledo does not need a presentation since it is a festival considered of International Tourist Interest, but in case there is still someone who does not know it, to say that Arfe's Custody is the spiritual and artistic heart of the Corpus Christi Procession.nnIt gives me something to talk about the Custody because it is known worldwide, and I think it gives for several conversations, but ...nnTo put something say that it is said that the Custody is assembled and disassembled with 12,600 screws, to hold around 5600 pieces and 260 figures with their 370 Kg of weight.nnAlso comment that its structure is composed of two parts, the monstrance or hand custody, and the large Gothic structure that resembles a cathedral tower. When he leaves, he goes on a float accompanied by the cadets of the Infantry Academy.nnThe body of the Custody is a large Gothic set of hexagonal plant, made in silver and gold. This work of goldsmithing was commissioned by Cardinal Cisneros to the jeweler of German origin but born in León, Enrique de Arfe.nnIt is said that it was made with the first gold brought by Christopher Columbus of America, but ... well I doubt it ...nnIf I can tell more things of this Custody, because it has curious things like for example that the fame was taken by Enrique de Arfe, but originally it was entrusted to Isabel the Catholic to the Catalan goldsmith Jaume Aimeric, who finished it in 1499 ... but Isabel the Catholic died five years later and barely enjoyed it, whereupon Cardinal Cisneros ordered the purchase of the ostensory, completed with another silver, and entrusted Enrique de Arfe.nnArfe did it but let's say he ended up saturated with work, because although he had already made a custody for the Cathedral of León, and had experience, he was doing another one for the city of Córdoba ... but Cardinal Cisneros sent a lot ... multiplied thanks to Cordova replaced in Cordoba goldsmiths replacing him in so many trips to Toledo.nnWell I do not extend more, if I can tell more things of the Custody but in case someone does not know yet to say that this marvel of goldsmithing is guarded in front of the ecclesiastical and political authorities and behind by cadets of the Infantry Academy, awakening its passage through the town great applause, intense emotion even releasing tears of the people that to the passage of the Custody sprinkled by petals of flowers from the balconies slides by its streets entoldadas and adorned.nnI always recommend things, but this even more.nnAhh, and in case anyone asks you to remember that the first time he left Toledo was in 1595, to celebrate the title of Cathedral to the Cathedral Toledo.nnGood talk, happy day.