Winter, as much or more than any other season of the year, also has its own symbolism, which has not gone unnoticed by the different emotions and symbols that have drawn the attention of Humanity throughout the centuries.

In such a way, that for example, medieval alchemists, apprentice imitators of the sophisticated techniques of Nature, compared winter to putrefaction or the beginning of the Great Work, that deceptive moment in which matter seems to be dead and unproductive.

Allegorically, it used to be represented under the figure of an old man, who, covered in clothing from head to toe, remained warming himself seated by a good fire.

This is also an allegory frequently used by medieval artists, who used to represent it in those precedents of the almanacs, which were the mensarios, sculpting them, either on the main doorways or on the outside of the naves of churches.

Winter marks, on the other hand, that time of truce and recollection, where even Nature seems lethargic, gathered in on itself, awaiting that resurrection that is to take place in spring, a moment that was also the appropriate time to start not only new activities of an agricultural nature, but to put into practice the art of war, a factor that in fact characterized an important part of the convulsions that shook the life and vicissitudes of the medieval people.

But even with its white pallor, with that cold that penetrates to the marrow of the bones, inviting meditation and staying under the sweet shelter of home, winter is a season that provides spectacular views, especially when it makes an appearance. an archetype of poetic connotations, such as snow.

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