Journals on the History of Commerce

The 29th issue in the series of notebooks on the History of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca is titled; The looms of Lumbrales. The socioeconomic impulse that characterized the town. It has been written by journalist Ignacio Francia and covers in nine chapters the activity of the last weaver...

The monographs dedicated to the remarkable businesses and industries of Salamanca have one more issue, on this occasion, dedicated to the hospitality sector. In 2022, the Plus Ultra received the Castilla y León Tourism Award in its category. Thanks to the memoirs and writings collected by **Tom...

Number 27 of this collection is dedicated to the footwear merchant Antonio Lorenzo Bahía (1880-1952), nicknamed “el Gallo” (the Rooster). However, the period of time covered by its lines exceeds the protagonist's own life, extending from his ancestors to the present day. This extensive activity...

In 1954, the Tormes Metallurgical Company moved from Calzada de Medina to Avenida de la Aldehuela, becoming part of the S.A. Mirat complex. Many people from Salamanca surely remember the building that housed the metallurgical plant, located opposite the old provincial prison -currently Da2- unt...

Jesús Rodríguez López is one of those businesses that, despite having closed its doors many years ago, continues to be in the collective memory of the city.

It was open for almost one hundred years. Located in the heart of Plaza Mayor, it was one of the most famous department stores...

Metalúrgica del Tormes, the company was founded by the Pérez Conesa family in 1917, and along with those of Maculet and Moneo, it was one of the three large foundry industries Salamanca has had. This installment is the result of research and writing by María Ordóñez and Mark Zoder a...

The commercial history of La Madrileña confectionery begins on Zamora street, although, before the turn of the 20th century, it was already open to the public in Salamanca's Plaza Mayor. It has remained in the same location to this day, without this sweet centenary business showing signs of fati...

Jewelry has been, for centuries, a flourishing branch of commerce in the city. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, during his fleeting visit to Salamanca at the end of the 19th century, described La Rúa as a street where booksellers and jewelers alternated.

One of these businesses that has extended i...

For several generations of Salamanca residents, Paulino is a name associated with the city's commerce. Synonym of prestige, novelty and also luxury, its historical trajectory was linked to that of its location, the Plaza Mayor.

But Paulino was also a company that crossed the boundaries of Sal...

This new installment in the collection of monographs on the History of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca is dedicated to a craft business, located far from the capital, in a small town in the region of Ciudad Rodrigo: El Bodón. Its presence in a collection fundamentally focused on the city's o...

The Coliseum theater-cinema remains present in the collective imagination, having given its name to one of the passages in the Plaza Mayor. The Coliseum theater-cinema was one of Salamanca's most emblematic centers dedicated to culture and entertainment. It first opened its doors to the public...

Basilio Redondo's factory was founded in 1948 and definitively closed its doors in July 1984, after almost forty years of production. It was located in Chamberí, a neighborhood in Salamanca where, since the late 19th century, factories and warehouses had proliferated around the railway station l...

Pablo García was one of the oldest commercial businesses in the city. Founded in the 19th century, it continued for the next century, managed by César Álvarez Núñez and, later, by his children César and Julia Álvarez García, until the dawn of the 21st century when it closed to the public.

Thi...

This new Notebook of the History of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca deals with the figure of the entrepreneur Jaime San Román. Among his businesses is the foundation of Nilonplex or Ledesa, relevant companies in Salamanca in the second half of the 20th century. The notebook has been wri...

Starting from the idea of wanting to talk about the cafes of the early 20th century, the main difficulty has been finding enough graphic and written documentation on the subject. As an example of those old cafes, where part of Salamanca's daily leisure of that era took place, here are the...

This issue is about a far-reaching commercial initiative in the social life of the city: the history of the Brotherhood of Merchants. Heir to ancient guild initiatives, the Brotherhood of Merchants emerged at the beginning of the 20th century as a contribution from businessmen to the religiosi...

With this notebook, the Museum of Commerce and Industry of Salamanca wishes to pay tribute to one of the most important companies in the province during the last century, TEJISA, which would have celebrated eighty years of business activity in 2013. With an exclusive dedication to the world of...

Toys are as old as man. But there have not always been specialized toy stores. For this to be possible, families' purchasing power had to increase, something that would not happen in Salamanca until the 20th century. This notebook tells the story of a toy store in our city. The author of the te...

The eleventh Salamanca Notebook of Commercial and Industrial History focuses on a company dedicated to jewelry and filigree work, a tradition of such long standing in our province. Luis Méndez Artesanos, the current name of the commercial firm featured in the publication, has its roots in t...

Two years ago, this institution had the opportunity to access the business documentation preserved by Mirat S.A., probably the oldest industry in Salamanca. Among this documentation, **several folders dedicated to the construction of the neighborhood built at the beginning of the 20th century by Jua...

Older people still remember the Centenera brothers, Agustín and Cipriano, who ran asecond-hand bookshop in the Plaza de los Bandos until the late eighties of the last century. Unique in their physical appearance and protagonists of multiple anecdotes, they are characters rooted in the urban myth...

Núñez Printing Press and Bookstore, opened in 1900, maintained its activity until 2007, when it closed due to reasons beyond the owners' control. It has been repeatedly refounded on a bookselling business active at least since the 18th century. The Núñez family's ownership represents a successio...

The history of the Bomati family in our city begins in the mid-19th century. From then until the Civil War, its members were active citizens of this small provincial capital which, at the beginning of the last century, barely exceeded twenty-five thousand inhabitants. **Initially, the Bomati name...

Since the late 19th century, the Plaza Mayor has changed its commercial appearance on several occasions. Santiago Jewelry, with its original facade, has the flavor of the city's most traditional businesses.**It has managed to maintain itself for eighty years, adapting to changes in its surrounding...

The business to which this sixth installment of the Museum of Commerce Notebooks is dedicated is still remembered by several generations of residents of Salamanca, as it remained open until the eighties of the last century in the central Poeta Iglesias square.
Throughout all the time it was active...

This Notebook from the Museum of Commerce recounts the evolution of a very particular type of business: clothing stores, a way of approaching the clothing business that would imply novelties not only in dealing with customers, but also in business management and employee relations.

Although...

This third issue of the Cuadernos del Museo del Comercio is dedicated to the Central Market, which in this year 2009 celebrates the centenary of its official inauguration. We wanted to pay tribute to the Market by writing about a significant event that occurred two years before its inauguration...

There was a time when a pastry shop called La Mallorquina opened to the public in all cities of Spain. La Mallorquina of Salamanca was founded by Don Santiago Bermejo Pollo at the beginning of the 20th century. Bermejo Pollo had a street named after him until the sixties, where he built his can...

This is the first title in a collection that aims to honor traditional commerce in Salamanca. Each of the issues that form it will be monographic about a specific business and will have been chosen, among other reasons, for illustrating the history of our city or province. The number of t...