Soria - Palacio Gómara

Farther into the town, in Calle de Aguirre, is the Palacio de los Condes de Gómara, a magnificent Renaissance mansion (16th C.) with an elegant square tower. It is the most sumptuous building dating from the heyday of the Mesta, the corporation of wealthy sheep-farmers which from the 13th to the 19th century controlled the summer migration of sheep from Extremadura into the more temperate regions of eastern Spain and exercised considerable political and economic power.