Double terrace Headboard made in prussian blue criesed velvet by V. Valls.
Junior suite courtyard Tapestry made in silk by Rocío Moreno, inspired in astral interaction
Twin courtyard Tapestry made in silk of Andalusí inspiration. “Fez Embroiderie” by Rocío Moreno
Twin first floor A tapestry made in silk and inspired on the smile of Budha
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
Junior suite street Tapestry titled “Tie Dye”, by the artist Rocío Moreno
Small double Headboard made in aubergine criesed velvet by V. Valls.
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.
“Diseño y atención.”
Un lujo tener un jaccuzzi privado para tí.
Nos recomendaron sitios para cenar estupendos. Gracias a las chicas.
My Favorite Hotel in Spain, maybe the whole of Europe
“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.
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.
"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.
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.......
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.
"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"
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.
“Lovely, relaxing stay”
We only had one night in this hotel unfortunately. Our room was lovely and the shower and bathroom huge.
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!
"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
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!
“Lindo hotel cerca a la mezquita. La decoración es muy moderna y minimalista"
“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!.
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.........
In Málaga it is tradition to only provide streets with the first name of the honored person. So we all know who does Larios street stand for –the famous Málaga brewer–, but right next to it we find the commercial Martínez street and I’m still figuring out who is being honored there.
Well, I thought that the Ferrándiz street where I was staying was named after the famous character “Chanquete” of the show Blue Summer. Or so I thought the first day.
A new Sunday rose dazzling but with a nice cool breeze, strange in June. We decided to have breakfast outside in the park, we took a look around and chose to sit down at the bar The Garden of the Monkeys, a terrace sheltered by a chapel with a great view to the jacarandas of the square and the daily grind in the streets. When the waiter arrived I couldn’t help myself thinking he looked like one of the characters from the Planet of the Apes. I asked, then, for the reason behind the name of the bar. It seemed like Victoria square is also known as The garden of the monkeys since for a long time it held two cages.
After breakfast we –my wife and me – wandered from Victoria street, back bone of “de chupa y tira” (lick an throw away) neighborhood, to the touristic center of Málaga. That morning we would visit the Customs museums, an old impressing building that has just been restored to host the archaeological and the Málaga painters museum under the name of Málaga Museum.
The archaeological museum had its beginnings in the Loringiana Collection of antiques that the rich Loring marriage, Amalia and Jorge, amassed in their country house, today the Botanical Garden of Málaga. The Loringiana collection acquired real size during the mid XIXth century, after the purchase of the collection of the Córdoba antiquarian Pedro Leonardo de Villacevallos. This material would later welcome the new collections. Capitals from Medina Azahara, milliaria and roman and Arab tombstones coming from Córdoba decorate the entrance room of the museum.
However, the surprise begun when I reached the floor dedicated to Málaga painters. I crossed the door and the first thing I saw was the face of the waiter from the Garden of the Monkeys, the bar, a bust sculpted in stone exactly like him!
And so I got close enough to read the information about the head. And, oh, surprise!, it was the painter: Bernardo Ferrándiz y Badenes, a Valencia man that lived in Málaga and is considered the father of the Málaga painting. It is him the man with the surname written in a street plaque not Chanquete the actor.
But who was this man with monkey features, a street named after him and a public statue that I didn’t know about before. Well, I was at the right spot to find out, and I decided to act and do some good old research of this artist’s work in the collection. And the collection had plenty of his work, but it was the smallest of his paintings that gave me the key to understanding this artist’s life and fate.
The painting I’m referring is a small panel only a bit bigger than a paper sheet, donated by the Prado Museum. The name of the painting is “Postrimerías” (dying moments) and was painted in 1881, a year after the event I’m about to tell you and four years before Ferrándiz’s death.
Bernardo Ferrándiz was in 1880 the director of the Fine Arts School of Saint Telmo. It is thanks to his work that this institution reached the level of the best academies in Spain, even Europe. As we said before he was the father of the Málaga painting, big Málaga names like Moreno Carboner, José Nogales and Enrique Simonet among many others were his disciples.
Ferrándiz was then known for being liberal and a republican, also for his professional enthusiasm and perseverance to improve the School of Fine Arts –though he always struggled for funding. It was during this struggles that the fatal event that lead him to his ruin and perhaps even his death took place.
This happened: Ferrándiz asked for a sum of money to economically provide the awards of the Fine Arts School, a sum that was refused to him by the board. In one of the board’s meetings he encountered Juan Nepomuceno Ávila, an academic and a preppy ultra-catholic monarchic supporter that was also the municipal architect and close friend of the Marquis of Salamanca. It was him, in the first place, who denied Ferrándiz the money. A heated argument started between them and Ferrándiz couldn’t take it any longer and exploded completely losing his temper and attacking Nepomuceno. So violent must have been the attack that he was charged with attempted murder and sent to prison. He was barred and expelled from the School. However, even though the event were in everybody’s mouth, it barely made it to the local newspapers. Even nowadays is hard to find information about the event.
Ferrándiz died that day for the official circles of culture in Málaga. He stopped painting too. This little painting that I told you about portrays his living death and depicts the two main characters that lead to this dying moments of his: himself as a dead cat, and this Nepomuceno, a mouse gloating over the death of whom he didn’t kill.
The panel painting has the following inscription:
“Kick a man once he is dead”
“Oh King, fierce yesterday for you my deeds I did enforced, and today that death is inside me even you have come to tread on the dust I once was!”
So it says the inscription in the frame of Ferrándiz’s painting, also its tittle refers to a proverb that teach us about the cowardice of kicking someone when he is down.
The story of this “cursed” artist is barely known nor published. But even so Ferrándiz got to have his surname in a street plaque and a statue. He did a lot for the Arts in Málaga and filled the city with works of art, for instance the ceiling and the curtains of the Cervantes Theater that nowadays stands a symbol of Malaga’s commitment with culture.
All in all, what can you do! Another cursed artist that joins my personal altar. It has been a while since I first realized that in Spain, where culture is but a nuisance when it cannot be an ornament, the cursed ones are the only ones that carry the true essence of Spanish culture. I turn to them cursed ones for truth, I turn to them cursed ones once they are dead and then happily reinstated, happily published now that they can no longer “pollute” the status quo. Cursed ones, in Spain there are hundreds of them: Lorca was a cursed poet, so was Alberti too and Antonio Machado and Miguel Hernández and Goytisolo, Panero, Haro, García Calvo, the rocker Silvio or Juan Antonio Canta, and even the eternal Cervantes himself or the great Goya, all of them cursed and badly treated during their time. A cursed artist was also the Málaga painter Pablo Picasso who, by the way, begun his Arts studies in Ferrándiz Saint Telmo School just a few years after the fatal event.
Blessed cursed ones!
PS: I couldn’t go to the Garden of the Monkeys to ask that waiter about his surname, I unfortunately run out of time in Málaga.
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