Energetic duo of warm and cold colours for this landscape of Puente la Reina, a town in Navarre, with its two churches: on the left in the foreground the church of the Crucifijo and in the centre in the background the bell tower of the church of Santiago el Mayor emerging above a few houses of the old town.

The blue and white cloudy sky that occupies the entire upper part of the canvas casts the Crucifijo church and the hill in the background on the right in shadow. In contrast, the buildings around the Santiago el Mayor church in the centre of the canvas and the grounds in the foreground remain flooded with sunlight.

Two axes of vision run through the canvas: first the line of the two churches sinking into the horizon on the right, and then the cut line on the sky of the Crucifijo church sinking into the ground in the axis of a small path.

The rain-swollen clouds and the alternation of sun and shade give us a sense of the turbulent nature of the scene, perhaps reminiscent of the violent storms that this Spanish land has endured.

A donkey at the foot of a pile of golden hay testifies to the timelessness of the stones of past centuries which, rooted to the ground, resist the passing of time, however windy it may be.