Viaja en el tiempo hasta el Quito colonial de 1650, en pleno corazón de la Real Audiencia del Perú. Acompaña a una familia criolla a través de un día completo: el amanecer entre campanas barrocas, el chocolate especiado del desayuno, los mercados indígenas, los talleres de escultura religiosa, la vida en una hacienda andina y el silencio bajo el cielo estrellado de los Andes.
Esta reconstrucción ha sido creada con inteligencia artificial a partir de crónicas coloniales, inventarios notariales y archivos históricos del Ecuador, buscando recrear con el mayor rigor posible la vida cotidiana en una de las ciudades más importantes de la América colonial.
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Esta reconstrucción ha sido creada con inteligencia artificial a partir de crónicas coloniales, inventarios notariales y archivos históricos del Ecuador, buscando recrear con el mayor rigor posible la vida cotidiana en una de las ciudades más importantes de la América colonial.
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00:00Imagine waking up before the sun touches the peaks of Pichincha.
00:04It is a May morning in the year of Our Lord 1650.
00:09The air has that strange quality that only exists at almost 3,000 meters altitude.
00:15Clean as glass, cold as a river stone,
00:18perfumed with the smoke from the firewood already burning in the kitchen braziers.
00:23There is still no light, but the city is awake.
00:26Quito doesn't sleep much, but its bells never sleep.
00:30It's 5 in the morning and 12 convents and churches begin calling the faithful almost simultaneously
00:36time.
00:37A bronze symphony that bounces between the hills like a conversation of giants.
00:42The city has a little over 20,000 souls at the moment.
00:46A number that seems modest, but which makes it the administrative heart,
00:50religious and commercial of the entire royal audience of Peru.
00:54More than 80 religious buildings compete for the skyline,
00:58its baroque bell towers stabbing the sky between eternally snow-capped volcanoes.
01:03This scene you are about to experience has been reconstructed using artificial intelligence
01:08based on colonial chronicles, notarial inventories, and town council minutes
01:13and the records of the hearing itself that are kept in the National Archives of Ecuador.
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01:33The streets of Quito in 1650 are an experiment in contradictions.
01:37The city was laid out in a perfect grid pattern by the Spanish just 80 years ago,
01:43on the very foundations of the ancient Inca Quito that Francisco Pizarro ordered destroyed.
01:48But that impeccable geometry clashes every morning with the organic chaos of colonial life.
01:54The cobblestones are made of andesite stone, that dark volcanic rock that the Andes provide in abundance,
02:00They are covered at this hour by a mixture of night mud and mule urine.
02:04and the remains of the garbage that neighbors throw from their balconies before dawn.
02:09The smell is dense and animalistic, mixed with the incense already escaping through the half-open doors of San Francisco.
02:16the largest church in all of the Americas,
02:19whose freshly whitewashed facade seems to float in the darkness like an apparition.
02:25Even at this hour, the first movements of the day are taking place in those streets.
02:30Indians from the mita carrying bundles on their backs with leather straps called mecapal,
02:36mestizos wrapped in woolen blankets made in the region's own workshops,
02:41some freed black man with an oil lamp that barely illuminates a meter around him,
02:46And the mules, always the mules, the animal that drives the economy of the Andes with its rhythmic hooves on
02:52the stone.
02:54Let's cross the threshold of one of the most prosperous houses in the San Marcos neighborhood.
02:58It belongs to Don Alonso de Valverde Cisneros, a second-generation Creole,
03:02son of Spaniards born in these lands, neighbor encomendero with lands in the Chillos Valley
03:09and a cloth warehouse on the street of the four corners.
03:12He is 42 years old, has a wife named Doña Inés de la Rea, and four living children out of seven who were born
03:19and 19 people living under his roof, including family, servants, mitallos, and an African slave named Gaspar
03:27which they bought six years ago in Cartagena de Indias.
03:30The house's facade doesn't obviously advertise wealth; that would be in bad taste and also bad.
03:36strategy.
03:37In colonial Quito, displaying too much could attract the attention of royal officials.
03:42that collect taxes or from priests who solicit donations.
03:45The main entrance is a carved stone doorway with Baroque motifs
03:50that curiously and absolutely Americanly mix European angels with ears of corn and jungle flowers.
03:57That mixture has a name that art historians would use centuries later: mestizo style or Andean baroque.
04:04It is the visual language of this continent that is learning to be itself.
04:10Two solid cedar wood doors, studded with bronze, lead to the entrance hall.
04:15a wide, gloomy corridor that smells of damp stone and wax.
04:19There are two niches in the walls with images of saints,
04:22a polychrome wooden Christ that came from the workshops of Bernardo de Legarda,
04:26the most sought-after sculptor in Quito at the moment,
04:29and a Saint Joseph with the child that Doña Inés commissioned from her own father, a craftsman of religious images.
04:36The art of Quito from 1650 was already famous throughout the viceroyalty.
04:40Their Virgins of Quito travel to Lima, to Mexico, to Spain.
04:45In the workshops of the San Francisco convent, Indians, mestizos, and Spaniards work side by side.
04:51producing images that will amaze the world.
04:54Once past the entrance hall, the house opens up like a lung.
04:57The main courtyard, which notarial documents simply call the courtyard,
05:02It is a large square with a stone fountain in the center
05:05and covered corridors with tiled eaves on all four sides.
05:09The water that murmurs in the fountain comes from the system of irrigation canals that the Incas built.
05:14and that the Spanish maintain with indigenous labor.
05:17Around the patio grow orange trees, a fig tree, and red carnations.
05:21and the indispensable rue plant that Doña Inés cultivates
05:24because it repels bad energy and insects at the same time.
05:28The patio is the heart of the house, the place where all the day's activities converge,
05:33where children play and servants cross with vessels
05:36And domestic animals do what they do best.
05:40But let's return to the dawn, which has not yet finished being born.
05:44At five thirty in the morning, Don Alonso is already awake.
05:48He sleeps in the master suite, a second-floor room overlooking the courtyard,
05:53separated from the children's room by a corridor.
05:56The bed is a walnut wood frame with a canopy and blue velvet curtains.
06:00which serve to retain heat and also, according to popular belief,
06:05to prevent harmful vapors from the night air from entering while sleeping.
06:09The mattress is filled with sheep's wool.
06:12The sheets are made of cotton linen, washed and starched by India Catalina
06:16who has been in the house for 12 years.
06:18The dawn ritual begins with washing hands and face
06:22in a glazed ceramic basin that an indigenous boy
06:25filled with water from a jar.
06:27There were no interior plumbing pipes in the houses of Quito in 1650.
06:31Water is brought from the drought in jugs or stored in clay pots.
06:36Colonial hygiene is a complicated matter.
06:38A full body bath is an infrequent event,
06:42perhaps reserved for Holy Week or special occasions,
06:45But hand and face washing is constant, almost ritualistic.
06:49and perfumed water with orange blossoms is used in the more affluent homes.
06:53Don Alonso gets dressed with the help of a servant.
06:56Creole clothing from 1650 is a constant negotiation between the Andean climate
07:01and Spanish fashion that arrives several years late on the ships that come up from Lima.
07:06White canvas shirt with lace collar,
07:09dark cloth breeches that reach the knee,
07:12woolen stockings, leather shoes with buckles,
07:15on top a fitted doublet and to go out a layer of guayabera
07:19that protects from the cold of the Quito dawn.
07:21The colors of Creole clothing are sober: black, brown, dark blue.
07:27Bright colors are the domain of silks
07:29that the judges of the court use in official ceremonies.
07:33Before any other activity, the whole family gathers in the oratory.
07:37In the homes of the Quito elite of 1650, almost without exception,
07:42There is a small domestic chapel or at least an oratory with its own altarpiece,
07:46episcopal license and reservation of the Blessed Sacrament if the family is important enough.
07:52Don Alonso's has a small altarpiece of gilded wood,
07:55an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, not the Mexican one, but a local devotion
08:00and two silver candlesticks crafted by indigenous artisans from the San Roque neighborhood.
08:04The art of Quito from 1650 was already famous throughout the viceroyalty.
08:09Their Virgins of Quito travel to Lima, to Mexico, to Spain.
08:14Indians, mestizos, and Spaniards work in the workshops of the San Francisco convent.
08:18Side by side producing images that will amaze the world.
08:22Don Alonso's mornings follow a pattern that colonial chroniclers
08:26They describe it with an almost mechanical regularity.
08:29After the chocolate and the most urgent household chores,
08:33review accounts with the steward, receive the estate report
08:37which arrives by messenger every Monday and to sign documents that the notary brings to your home,
08:42He goes out onto the street around 9 in the morning.
08:44He goes on foot, preceded by a boy carrying a silver-handled staff.
08:49which indicates his status as an honest neighbor.
08:51The journey to Plaza Mayor takes 10 minutes.
08:55Quito is compact, built to be explored on foot in the space between its hills.
09:00The Plaza Mayor is the beating heart of the city.
09:03In 1650, all the power was concentrated around that stone rectangle.
09:08The Cathedral, the Royal Court Palace, the Town Hall, the arcades with shops
09:14and the permanent gallows in a corner that reminds everyone who's in charge.
09:17The market is not in the main square, but in the small square of San Francisco, further down.
09:22where every morning the Indians come down from the surrounding highlands to sell potatoes,
09:27corn, guinea pigs, spun wool, flowers, charcoal, and herbal remedies.
09:32That market smells of wet earth and smoke, and freshly cut grass.
09:37It is the place where worlds meet, the Spanish and the indigenous.
09:41subsistence economy and colonial economy,
09:44Quechua and Spanish mixed together in the haggling of each transaction.
09:48And Doña Inés, meanwhile, finds her morning no less busy.
09:53except that it mostly takes place within the walls.
09:55She rules the inner world with an authority that needs no titles
10:00because it's inscribed in every corner of the house.
10:03He supervises the work of the Indian service women.
10:05Check the condition of the rooms.
10:07Distribute the fabric for weekly sewing.
10:10The women of Quito's elite in 1650 sewed with skill and perseverance,
10:15not out of economic necessity, but because embroidery and weaving
10:18They are an exhibition of domestic virtue, of education, of good taste.
10:22Doña Inés has an embroidery frame with a linen tablecloth that she has been embroidering.
10:26from the previous year with motifs of flowers and birds from the Andes.
10:30She also dedicates time to the charitable works she manages for the convent.
10:34of the Immaculate Conception, where she has a sister.
10:37Money for the shamefully poor, medicine for the Indians in the hospital
10:41and clothing for the exposed children.
10:44Don Alonso's children are four.
10:46The eldest, Gonzalo, is 14 years old and already studies at the Colegio de San Luis.
10:51where the Jesuits teach him Latin, scholastic philosophy, rhetoric
10:56and the foundations of law.
10:58His fate is clear.
10:59University, perhaps in Lima, and then a career in colonial administration
11:05or in the church.
11:06The second, Catalina, is 12 years old and learns at home under the tutelage of
11:11from a Dominican nun who comes three times a week,
11:15reading, writing, music, sewing, and doctrine.
11:19Girls from the colonial elite do not go to school.
11:22They are educated at home or in convents,
11:25and their education is geared towards marriage to a good match
11:28or towards religious life.
11:31The two children, Pedro and Luisa, aged 8 and 6,
11:35They still live in the boundless universe of childhood,
11:38playing in the yard with wooden tops, rag dolls,
11:42baked clay marbles and the dogs of the house.
11:46Along with those Creole children,
11:48The children of the Indian women in the service also play.
11:50Colonial childhood mixes without remorse what adulthood separates.
11:55It is one of those moments where history shows its most contradictory side.
11:59The white boy and the Indian boy share the same yard,
12:04the same games, sometimes the same language.
12:06Many Creole children from Quito learn Quechua from their nannies
12:10before learning Spanish well.
12:12But in just a few years,
12:14Their paths will diverge in a brutal and irrevocable way.
12:18Noon arrives heralded by the bells of the Santo Domingo convent,
12:22which marks 12 with precision
12:24that the neighbors use to adjust their own hourglasses.
12:28The main meal of the day,
12:30which in colonial Quito is simply called
12:32The food, plain and simple.
12:34It is served at 12:30 in the dining room.
12:36a spacious room with a long, dark wooden table,
12:40embossed leather chairs,
12:42a sideboard with silverware
12:44which is only brought out when there are guests,
12:46and on the main wall an oil painting of the Holy Family
12:49commissioned to a painter from Quito whose name no one will remember.
12:53Lunch is the most elaborate meal of the day.
12:57Start with a chicken or mutton broth with mint,
13:01Then comes a meat stew with potatoes and spices,
13:04accompanied by Castilian rice,
13:06that rice that the Spanish brought
13:08and which the people of Quito enthusiastically embraced,
13:11and corn tortillas.
13:12For dessert, some seasonal fruit,
13:16loquats, guavas, and cherimoyas that come down from the eastern slopes
13:20or panela sweets that they make on the farm.
13:23Chicha de jora is drunk at the service table
13:25and Spanish wine on the gentlemen's table,
13:28a wine that arrives from Spain in clay amphorae sealed with wax
13:32and that in Quito it already has the price of a reasonable luxury.
13:36The after-dinner conversation lasts exactly as long as digestion and the conversation itself.
13:40Don Alonso sometimes receives a colleague from the council or a friendly clergyman.
13:45Early afternoon, between 2 and 4 pm, is siesta time.
13:50not necessarily sleep, but stillness, reading, meditation.
13:54The books in Don Alonso's house, there are 14.
13:58listed in the will he would write 16 years later,
14:02They include a book of hours, the ordinances of the royal court,
14:06A natural history by José de Acosta
14:08and a chivalric romance that circulates from hand to hand among the neighbors,
14:12Books are expensive in Quito; they come from Spain or Lima.
14:16several years pass in transit
14:18And when they arrive they already have a patina of distance and rarity
14:22which makes them more valuable.
14:24The afternoon brings its own rituals.
14:27Around 4 o'clock, Don Alonso can go to the baths located next to the San Roque irrigation ditch.
14:31where a wooden shed offers water heated by boilers
14:35and a wooden tub in which a man can submerge himself up to his waist.
14:40Steam baths have been popular in Quito since before the conquest.
14:44The Incas had their own puyús, sacred hot springs in the surroundings of the city.
14:49The colonial Spaniards, who in their homeland are known for bathing infrequently,
14:54In India, they adopt local hygiene habits relatively quickly.
14:58Perhaps because the body in the tropics craves what the body in Castile never needed.
15:03The afternoons are also a time for social visits,
15:07from walks along the Alameda that borders the Machángara River,
15:10of the procedures before the court or the council,
15:13of the orders in the cloth warehouse.
15:15Quito is a city of civil servants, religious people, artisans, and merchants.
15:20Its economy in 1650 rested on three pillars.
15:24The textile workshops where thousands of Indians work
15:27producing woolen cloth to supply the entire viceroyalty,
15:31the farms in the surrounding valleys that produce grains and livestock
15:35and the transit trade between Cartagena and Lima.
15:38The city has no access to the sea; it is imprisoned between its volcanoes.
15:42But it has the water of its irrigation ditches, the fertility of its valleys
15:46and the indigenous labor that drives everything.
15:49Dinner, which is served around 7 pm when the sun has already set after
15:53Pichincha,
15:54It is a lighter meal than lunch.
15:57A broth, some simple stew, bread, cheese.
16:01The children eat dinner early and go to bed after saying the Lord's Prayer.
16:06Doña Inés oversees that moment with the gravity of someone who knows
16:09that religion is the glue that holds this fragmented society together,
16:14so full of hierarchies and contradictions.
16:17After dinner comes the moment of the night that Don Alonso prefers, the tertulia.
16:22They gather in the main hall, a more formal room than the dining room,
16:27with upholstered chairs, a cedar desk,
16:30a harpsichord that nobody plays well, but which is there as a sign of culture and aspiration.
16:35Sometimes the priest from the neighboring convent comes, a man of pleasant conversation and vast reading.
16:41Sometimes the audience counter, an old friend of the family.
16:45They talk about politics; King Philip IV is at war with France and Portugal.
16:50with the Dutch themselves continuing to attack ships in the Pacific.
16:54They talk about the local court, about land disputes,
16:57about the rumors regarding the next inspector coming from Lima to review the accounts.
17:02They play chess, board games, cards, and drink warm chicha with spices.
17:08Music may appear at these gatherings.
17:11The guitar and the harp are the most common instruments in Quito homes in 1650.
17:17The Mitallo Indians of the hacienda sometimes bring their cane flutes.
17:21And then the evening takes on a different texture, more American, more mixed-race,
17:26as if the music were saying what no colonial law allows to be said aloud,
17:31that this new world they are creating between volcanoes and bell towers
17:35It is neither Spain nor the Tahuantinsuyo, but something that does not yet have a precise name.
17:41Gaspar, the African slave, sleeps in a small room next to the kitchen,
17:46in the same corridor where the two youngest Indian servants sleep.
17:50Their situation is legal, although atrocious.
17:53It was bought in Cartagena de Indias for 200 silver pesos,
17:57figure that Don Alonso notes in his account book
17:59with the same indifference with which he notes the price of a mule.
18:02In colonial Quito society there are currently several hundred African slaves,
18:08far fewer than on the coast,
18:10but enough for their presence to leave an indelible mark on music,
18:14in the cuisine and in the Spanish spoken in this city.
18:18Gaspar speaks broken Spanish mixed with words from an African language.
18:22that no one in Quito can identify anymore.
18:25He cooks green plantain fritters with particular skill.
18:28that no Indian cook knows how to do the same.
18:31The Mitallo Indians who work in Don Alonso's house
18:35They are in a different, but equally difficult, condition.
18:38The urban mita system forces nearby indigenous communities to participate in forced labor.
18:42to send a percentage of their adult males
18:44to work in the cities for specific periods,
18:47in exchange for a meager salary that the employer often withholds under any pretext.
18:52They are cooks, omens, porters, construction workers.
18:58Their communities of origin, Sangolquí, Amaguaña, Pintac,
19:02They are a few hours from Quito,
19:04but the cultural distance between the courtyard of the Creole hacienda
19:07And the Andean Ailo is as vast as the ocean.
19:11At 10 pm the city is silent.
19:14Quito is a city that goes to sleep early because it has no reason to stay up late.
19:18There is no permanent theater, there are no cafes,
19:21There is no public lighting beyond oil lanterns
19:24that the night watchmen carry on their night rounds.
19:27The stars, on the other hand, are extraordinary.
19:30At almost 3,000 meters altitude,
19:32without light pollution, which would still take centuries to arrive,
19:35The Andean sky displays the Milky Way
19:38like a spill of flour on dark fabric.
19:40The people of Quito in 1650 knew that sky intimately,
19:45the Indians, by astronomical tradition inherited from the Incas
19:48who oriented their temples and agricultural calendars according to the constellations,
19:52The colonial Spaniards, through the navigation that brought them here.
19:57Don Alonso extinguishes the last candle in the oratory after reciting the prayers in full.
20:01the final prayer of the day.
20:02The silence that falls over the house is deep, but not still.
20:06The water continues to murmur in the courtyard fountain,
20:09A dog barks in the San Blas neighborhood.
20:11The bells of San Francisco strike 10 with their ancient bronze.
20:15Doña Inés is already asleep, the children are already asleep,
20:18India Catalina sleeps on the floor of the corridor,
20:21wrapped in a woolen blanket,
20:23Gaspar sleeps next to the unlit stove.
20:25And in that silence, in that darkness of extinguished candles and cold braziers,
20:30The city of Quito breathes its own name without knowing it,
20:34its oldest name,
20:36that name that the people of these valleys spoke long before any conqueror arrived,
20:41long before any baroque bell broke the silence of the volcanoes.
20:46Four centuries have passed since this night,
20:48The adobe walls have been built, torn down, and rebuilt.
20:53Many of the convents from 1650 are still standing.
20:57heritage of a humanity that barely knows them.
21:00The Inca irrigation canals still run beneath the modern asphalt,
21:04And that dark chocolate with cinnamon,
21:06served in gourds at dawn while the bells call to mass,
21:10It remains, in some way, the heart of an identity
21:13who never finished negotiating between his inheritances.
21:16History is not just about kings and viceroys,
21:19It also belongs to Catalina the cook, and to Gaspar the slave,
21:23Doña Inés with her embroidery frame,
21:25of the children with their spinning tops in the yard.
21:27It belongs to all those who breathed this air at almost 3000 meters altitude,
21:32between snow-capped volcanoes and baroque bell towers,
21:35unknowingly inventing what we now call Ecuador.
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