ABSTRACT
In order to understand the situation that prevailed between the communities at the end of the thirteenth until the middle of the fourteenth century, there are a few aspects of their daily lives that should be taken into account. The aljama was second in size to that of Toledo, was much wealthier and more numerous than in Segovia, and contributed 17 per cent of the city's total tax revenue at the end of the thirteenth century. Yet the anger of the mob was directed solely against the oppressive caballeros: their Jewish neighbours, it seems, were left untouched by the violence. Documents relating to the town's Jews in the fourteenth century indicate that they lived their lives separately from their Christian neighbours. The juderia was situated close to the castle and to its walls. The town of Belorado was close to the lucrative pilgrimage route, the camino de Sant Iago.
