{"id":1977,"date":"2020-11-09T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T11:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2021-03-03T13:07:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T12:07:15","slug":"the-mudejar-star-la-estrella-del-jamon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/en\/the-mudejar-star-la-estrella-del-jamon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mudejar star: la estrella del Jam\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Over five years ago now, we made the decision to combine the\ndifferent brands of ham that we make in our two companies under the same commercial name.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After working for almost 50\nyears in the city of Zaragoza and 20 years making <\/strong>PDO Teruel ham<\/strong><\/a> in Monreal\ndel Campo<\/strong>, we firmly believe in the need to show our clients that,\ndespite being two different companies, our way of making ham and our product\nphilosophy are the same. Both the TSG Serrano Ham<\/a> made by\nMariano G\u00f3mez, and the Teruel PDO and the cured Iberian<\/a> ham made\nby Jamones Sierra Palomera meet the quality parameters and use the traditional\nknow-how that we inherited from our grandfather and our father. La estrella\ndel jam\u00f3n<\/em> was the commercial name we chose for this business project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origin of the Mudejar star<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Mudejar\nstar or tartesic star<\/strong> has been used by many cultures and\nreligions over history. Known as Gadeiro<\/strong> (a\nname that calls to mind the inhabitants of Gades, now C\u00e1diz) or as the star of Abd al-Rahman I<\/strong>,\nfirst caliphate of Al-Andalus, this symbol represents a shining sun with 8\nbeams that the Tartesic people used to make their offerings to the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This 8-point star, the result of superimposing two concentric\nsquares (one of which was rotated through 45 degrees), originates from mythology and the\nreligions of ancient Mediterranean civilisations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Tartesia-Turdetan period, and during the centuries that\nthe Muslims occupied mainland Spain, they made the first coins featuring the eight-point\nstar, as a political symbol and as a decorative element. However, it was in the\nKingdom of Granada where it attained its true splendour, used to decorate\nbuildings, etchings and jewellery. The Moucharabies and Mudejares took the eight-point star all\nover the north of the mainland<\/strong> and the Muslims and Moors\nspread it through the North of Africa and the Middle East.\n\nDuring the Middle\nAges, Arag\u00f3n became a symbol for\nChristianity, Islam and Judaism living together<\/strong>. This ability\nto get along together is captured, among other aspects, in a wealth of\narchitecture. Teruel was privileged to have its most important Mudejar\narchitecture monuments acknowledged as a UNESCO\nWorld Heritage Site<\/strong> on 28 November 1986. Also in the provincial\ncapital of Zaragoza, boasting the most northerly Muslim palace in the world, La\nAljafer\u00eda, and the Cathedral of Our Saviour (La Seo), the Mudejar aspect and\nthe eight-point star are symbols of this peaceful coexistence in the past.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why La estrella del jam\u00f3n?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Our drying spots are joined by the Mudejar Motorway. A little\nover 100 kilometres\nseparates Cuarte de Huerva (Zaragoza) from Monreal del Campo (Teruel)<\/strong>,\nand this area is strewn with 8-point stars that have now become the symbol of the city of Teruel and its ham<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For us, the star not only represents our origin and joining the two Aragonese\nprovinces<\/strong> where we are currently based, but it also represents\nsomething more. Let\u2019s not forget that the idea of combining our brands brought a\ncharacter into the world who is now part of our very essence: Hamphrey<\/strong>. Our beloved\npiglet is doubtlessly a star in ham heaven. For us, he is the real Estrella del Jam\u00f3n<\/strong>,\nthe real Ham Star of our old and new history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over five years ago now, we made the decision to combine the different brands of ham that we make in our two companies under the same commercial name. After working for almost 50 years in the city of Zaragoza and 20 years making PDO Teruel ham in Monreal del Campo, we firmly believe in the need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laestrelladeljamon.es\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}