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Postcard from Cordoba, Spain: The ‘popular religiousity’ of Santa Maria

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“Popular Religiousity” is the heading applied to the figures of Jesus and Mary venerated in Cordoba in the brochure for Ruta de las Iglesias Fernandinas. The route includes a series of temples founded by Ferdinand III (1199-1252), King of Castile, following his conquest of Cordoba in 1236.

While figures of Jesus seem to play a larger role than they did in the churches of Seville, Mary is always a show-stopper with her regal brocaded gowns and impressive glittering crowns. Most of the statues of Mary have devoted brotherhoods or cofradias to see that their Marias are always elegantly attired and prepared to be borne aloft in parades, primarily during Semana Santa.

Maria Santisima de la Caridad, Miguel Angel Gonzalez Jurado, San Andres
Nuestra Senora del Mayor Dolor, Francisco Diaz Jimenez and Antonio Castillo Ariza, San Lorenzo Martir
San Lorenzo Martir
Nuestra Senora del Mayor Dolor, Francisco Diaz Jimenez and Antonio Castillo Ariza, San Lorenzo Martir
Nuestra Senora de Carmen, Lorenzo Cano, Carmen de Puerta Nueva
Nuestra Senora de la Palma, Francisco Romero Zafra, San Lorenzo Martir
Maria Santisima de la Caridad, Miguel Angel Gonzalez Jurado, San Andres
Maria Santisima de la Candelaria, San Francisco y San Eulogio
Nuestra Senora de la Lagrimas en su Desamparo, Basilica de San Pedro
Nuestra Senora de las Angustias, Juan de Mesa y Velasco, San Agustin
San Lorenzo Martir
Virgen del Cerro del Cabezo de Andujar, San Francisco y San Eulogio

The ticket to La Mezquita Catedral provides you with access during the opening hours of these churches.

Postcard from Cordoba, Spain: White-washed walls make colors pop

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Many of the buildings of Cordoba are white, but the city’s monochromatic walls make the splashes of colorful tiles, or azulejos; the red brick and white stone arches echoing the architecture of La Mezquita; and cascading bright geraniums that much more striking.

Palacio de Viana
Palacio de Viana
Palacio de Viana
Palacio de Viana
Palacio de Viana
Palacio de Viana
Palacio de Viana
Palacio de Viana

 

Postcard from Cordoba, Spain: Strolling through 80 years of photographs on the way to lunch

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images from “50 Fotografias con Historia,” XVI Bienal de Fotografia de Cordoba

Fifty images providing a glimpse of the past 80 years of the history of photography in Spain stretched out along Paseo de la Victoria earlier this year, flavorful tapas for us on the way to Mercado Victoria.

The large photographs were assembled for the XVI Bienal de Fotografia de Cordoba. Rather than try to show you snapshots of photographers’ famous works, I grabbed a few details caught in passing between panels. There are a few whole images on the website, including my favorite of the flying seminarian playing soccer taken by Ramon Masats in Madrid in 1959.

olives, Mercado Victoria
smoked tuna tost and matrimonial tost pairing an anchovy and a sardine, Mercado Victoria
Left: detail of “Wannabe,” Elisa Gonzalez Miralles, 2017
tosta de cecina with brie and tosta de salmon with goat cheese, La Queseria, Mercado Victoria
Right: detail of “Guardias de asalto en el carrer de la Ciputacio,” Agusti Centelles, 1936
tortillitas de camarones, La Pescadoteca, Mercado Victoria
falafel, Bocaito Andalusi, Mercado Victoria
Mercado Victoria
tempura battered queso de cabra with tomato marmelade, La Queseria, Mercado Victoria
Mil Sabores, Mercado Victoria
tablas, Mercado Victoria
lamb and vegetable couscous, Bocaito Andulusi, Mercado Victoria
Left: detail of “Fidel Castro,” Enrique Meneses, 1958. Right: detail of “La Nina Blanca,” Carlos Perez Siquier, 1958.
Right: detail of “The Beatles,” Joana Biarnes
pastries, Bocasito Andalusi, Mercado Victoria
padron chiles, O’Pulpino, Mercado Victoria

We wandered among the photographs twice as we made our way to pick out lunch from among the 30 stalls housed in Mercado Victoria. Cordobese delicacies and international dishes are found in the culinary market that opened in 2013 in a wrought-iron and glass zinc-roofed pavilion dating from 1877.

Normally we tend to find food halls of this type too touristy, but Mercado Victoria has the advantage of being removed from the main tourist zone around La Mezquita. Most customers were locals on their lunch hours, and tables were abundant. And with real plates and wine glasses, lunch there was pretty civilized.

Apologies for scrambling up culinary and photographic art, but for us they were a shared experience.