Junior suite street Tapestry titled “Tie Dye”, by the artist Rocío Moreno
Small double Headboard made in aubergine criesed velvet by V. Valls.
Junior suite courtyard Tapestry made in silk by Rocío Moreno, inspired in astral interaction
Double courtyard A tapestry made in silk and inspired on the smile of Budha. “Tiger Lines” by Rocío Moreno.
Double first floor A set of two tapestries made in silk inspired on oriental themes. “Susani” by Rocío Moreno
Double terrace Headboard made in prussian blue criesed velvet by V. Valls.
Twin first floor A tapestry made in silk and inspired on the smile of Budha
Twin courtyard Tapestry made in silk of Andalusí inspiration. “Fez Embroiderie” by Rocío Moreno
Nowadays Córdoba is quite an active city. Shows and cultural events are daily programmed throughout the many flourishing spaces the city has to that end. We have gathered here the most relevant sites in the web, so you are at all times informed about what is happening in the city.
This first edition of FLORA brought 8 international floral artists that transformed the Festival’s chosen patios into 8 unrecognizable stunning spaces. Located in some of the most representative buildings of Córdoba, this works have resulted in a delightful little tour through memory, art and heritage. These ephemeral floral installations will be open to the general public from the 20th to the 29th of October.
"For design and atmosphere lovers"
Viento10 is a perfect place to explore Cordoba. All sightseeings in walking distance. The hotel has a great architecture, rooms around a "patio". Room 7 spacious and stylish. Parking easy and close. Gerardo and his team gave us a warm wellcome and a delicious breakfast.
"La atención fue excelente.
El diseño del hotel inmejorable.
La ubicación, sin estar en el centro, era perfecta a la hora de comer, cenar o tomar una copa"
perfect stay in cordoba. Beautiful quite place in centre of Cordoba with very gentle, even "zen" owner. Design hotel room Excellent "fresh" breakfast Private parking space nearby. All you need for a beautiful stay in Cordoba!
“Diseño y atención.”
Un lujo tener un jaccuzzi privado para tí.
Nos recomendaron sitios para cenar estupendos. Gracias a las chicas.
Peaceful and beautiful.
Very central in Cordoba, peaceful, calm, beautiful room, friendly staff, lovely stay. Its not v obvious and chintzy which some places in Cordoba can be. Next time we will plan ahead and ask for the meditation session too.
Luxurious hospitality. When we got to Córdoba it was 108ºF and we could not be more miserable. Then we walked into Viento 10 and Gerrardo, the owner, greeted us with refreshing lemonade and a friendly conversation, exactly what we needed. The rest followed suit, with his recommendations for restaurants and the beautiful room and amenities, which included access to a spa.........
Hotel tranquille et moderne.
L'accueil est parfait, la localisation de l'hôtel est idéale car à proximité des activités tout en étant très calme. La décoration des chambres est sobre et moderne. Elles sont spacieuses et lumineuses, le tout organisé autour d'un joli patio.
My Favorite Hotel in Spain, maybe the whole of Europe
"Excelente"
Es un hotel muy tranquilo, bien ubicado. El trato excelente y el desayuno, inmejorable. Las habitaciones tienen buen tamaño, con camas cómodas. Todo está muy limpio y mimado, hasta el olor, muy agradable por las flores que decoran el hotel. Muy recomendable.
“Lindo hotel cerca a la mezquita. La decoración es muy moderna y minimalista"
Hidden Gem
This hotel was such a special surprise. It was hidden away on a tiny cobblestone street in the quietest part of town. Immaculately clean with wonderful personal hospitality and beautifully decorated. I would stay there again with pleasure. I had a wonderful breakfast on departure day.
“CARMEN ES EL ALMA DEL HOTEL.”
Sinceramente, nuestra experiencia en el hotel fue fantástica gracias a la impecable atención de Carmen, su encargada de recepción. Un placer haberte conocido!.
la perfection.Petit hôtel parfaitement décoré de façon moderne tendance zen. Chambre spacieuse calme grande. Un propriétaire parfait disponible et attentionné , le meilleur petit déjeuner pris dans un hôtel en Espagne. Nous sommes repartis enchantés. Seul bémol , il est très difficile de trouver le même hôtel dans une autre ville, on est déçu après avoir séjourné dans cet endroit.......
"Se respira un ambiente relajado y tranquilo cuando traspasas la puerta del hotel. Excelente hotel para una escapada a Cordoba, detalles cuidados, desayuno y habitación perfectos. Volveremos."
"A fantastic renovation"
So cool. Whitewashed rooms with stained concrete floors. Simple modern furnishings. Great rainforest shower with frosted glass doors. Lots of natural light. Interior courtyard with a lounge. Pretty table setting for breakfast - coffee, homemade cake, toast with olive oil, tomato and shaved Iberico ham. Very friendly staff... Highly recommend this beautiful place.
Cordoba merece un hotel como este. Maravilloso trabajo de rehabilitación para conseguir un espacio único y muy agradable...acogedor...bien climatizado y con espacios higiénicos muy modernos y cómodos. ...buena ubicación y un trato muy simpatico
“Lovely, relaxing stay”
We only had one night in this hotel unfortunately. Our room was lovely and the shower and bathroom huge.
“Un diseño moderno y altamente confortable”
La atención personalizada de los dueños y todo el staff es impecable.
El desayuno es una explosión de sabores.
kleines, tolles hotel. Ganz persönlich geführtes Hotel, in einem historischen Gebäude modern interpretiert. Sehr geschmackvoll, sauber und ruhig. Zu erwähnen ist das gesamte Personal, welches bei Empfehlungen für Restaurants und anderen Fragen immer tolle Tipps gegeben haben. Die Zimmer sind sehr unterschiedlich. Wir hatten ein sehr kleines, kuscheliges Zimmer im 1. Stock. Für drei Nächte völlig ausreichend. Bei Temperaturen um 40 Grad haben wir die kleine Dach-Terrasse leider nicht genießen können, sonst ein toller Ort, um mal zu relaxen. Alles in allem ein schöner Aufenthalt. Danke an Carmen , Gerardo und sein Team!
Norah Borges –we shall talk about her in a future article– was a painter and an engraver and was eager to meet the painter. So the brothers went to his house and studio in the Plaza del Potro. Norah was astonished by the Córdoba painter’s work. She would later learn from Romero de Torres in Madrid, where the painter taught drawing at the School of Arts of San Fernando. She was a top student.
That was the first and last time Borges visited the city. To his regret, as he confessed in a late interview. He was asked, taking into consideration the numerous cities known by him, which one would he like to go to again, and to everyone’s surprise, Borges replied he would go back to Córdoba.
It is, if given a second thought, not that strange since one his best tales, “El Aleph”, portraits its history and characters and the Islamic era.
We find the first reference to Córdoba in the short-story “El Zahir” where a coin of little value is found by chance and would later become Borges’s Zahir. A Zahir is an Islamic notion, studied by the the theologian Córdoba Ibn Hazm, that accounts for the two faces of God, a sort of “Aladdin’s magic lamp” that allows and grants everything, even the sight of God. Borges would describe it using Córdoba as metaphor:
“In Guzerat, at the end of the XVIIIth century, a tiger was a Zahir; in Java, a blind man in the mosque of Surakarta stoned by the faithful; in Persia, the astrolabe that Nadir Shah commanded to be thrown into the sea; in the prisons of Mahdi, around 1892, wrapped in a shredded turban, a small compass touched by Carl Von Slatin; in the Aljama of Córdoba, says Zotenberg, a vein in the marble of one of the one thousand and two hundred piers; in the Jewry of Tétouan, the bottom of a well…”
There is second reference to Córdoba, here being a main element of the story, in “Averroes’s search”, also a part of “El Aleph”. In this short story Averroes is depicted trying to decipher two words by Aristotle unknown to him: Tragedy and Comedy.
At the beginning of the tale we find this beautiful paragraph describing the city:
“Deep in the nap, loving doves were loosing their voices; in some invisible courtyard the rumor of a fountain grew; something old in the flesh of Averroes, whose ancestors came from Arabic wastelands, thanked the perseverance of water. The gardens, orchards, remained below; there the busy Guadalquivir and then the dearest city of Córdoba, as clear as Baghdad or Cairo, like a complex and delicate instrument, in every direction beyond (and this Averroes felt it too) broadened across Spain, where there are few things but every one of them seems to stand in a substantial and long lasting manner.”
“Averroes’s search” is considered one of his best works. Though it might seem simple, the tale is of great depth. In 2003, during a conference in Rimini, within a cycle of lectures and insights on the classics that preceded the read of “Averroes’s search”, Umberto Eco said:
“Thus we go back to the Borges tale in which the Argentinian imagines Abulgualid Muhámmad Ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Muhámmad Ibn-Rusd determined to decipher and comment Aristotles Poetics. He worries that he might ignore the meaning of the words tragedy and comedy, read nine years earlier in the Rhetoric. And in deed it is so, as they were unknown artistic ways in the Arab tradition. While Averroes torments himself about the meaning of these obscure words, outside there are children imitating a Mu’adhin, a minaret and the congregation, that is, they are acting they are doing theater, but neither Averroes nor the children know it; that is the specific Borgesian feature. Later someone tells the philosopher about an strange ceremony seen in China and, by the description, the reader (however not the characters in the tale) understands that it is theater. At the end of this true and total misleading comedy, Averroes goes back to Aristotle and concludes that “Aristú… says tragedy when it is a panegyric and comedy when it is satires and anathemas. The Quran and the Mu’allaqat are rich in admirable tragedies and comedies. If there is a true apologetic text of misunderstanding between cultures, this would be it.”
Here you can read the full tale:
https://estoespurocuento.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/jorge-luis-borges-la-busca-de-averroes-cuentos/
Although if you prefer it to be told:
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