The Córdoba mutiny of the Bread occurred in May of 1652, it is normally explained by black plague outbreaks and the outrageous price of the basic goods during those harsh years. This version of the facts, coined by Ramírez de Arellano, is widely accepted; it is even considered as one of the first popular riots in Europe of its kind echoing throughout the continent influencing, in some ways, the French revolution and the recent May 1968 events.
Read more: El Pan mutiny (The Bread mutiny) and the coin counterfeit in the convents of Córdoba.
This past Friday of Sorrows while Javier (BUREAU DELLAFLEUR) was working on Viento10’s floral arrangements for the Holy Week, a conversation came up between Gerardo and him about the color of the flowers.
If there is a remarkable image of Córdoba in the XIXth century that would be the aerial sight of the city made and then published by Alfred Gesdon in 1853. We were lucky to have been one of the chosen cities for his beautiful stamp catalog.
Read more: Was the famous panoramic of Alfred Guesdon taken from a balloon?
AMOR UNDERGROUND
¿Se imaginan a la ‘poco convencional’ pareja de Patti Smith y Robert Mapplethorpe paseando por Córdoba? Sí.
Recorrerían al anochecer antiguas callejas suburbiales, del “antiguo barrio de los gitanos”, que conectan la calle Amparo hasta la de plaza de la Alhóndiga:
Very soon did artistic trades take root in tauromachy. And it has proven a very fertile soil indeed.
Last Saturday I visited the Centre for Contemporary Creation in Córdoba, or C3 as it was finally named (it used to be called C4 before the grand official opening).
Read more: Visit to the Centre of Contemporary Art Creation C3
It is curioues how the only catholic Queen born in Córdoba went down in History as the “Discreet Queen” and she came in to this world during “the Fair of the Discreet”, that is also the title of a Pío Baroja’s novel set in Córdoba –an author profoundly acquainted with the nature and intimacies of the city. A strange coincidence that links the city to a certain quality: “Discretion”.
I know that the philosopher’s stone is only a myth built on human greed, but, nonetheless, for centuries it was said and believed that this legendary alchemical substance would turn any given metal, such as lead, into gold. It was also believed to be an elixir that would grant eternal life and youth. For many centuries it was also the most ambitioned end to most alchemists. The philosopher’s stone symbolizes perfection to its purest form, the spiritual enlightenment and divine happiness. Those efforts to discover the philosopher’s stone were known as Opus magnum (“Great work”)
Read more: What if the Philosopher’s Stone was under the floors of the Mezquita?
Albert Kahn (1860- 1940), besides a banker of Jewish background, was a philanthropist and a cultural promoter. In 1898, at the age of 38, he decided to start “The Archives of the Planet”, a universal project thought to be a dream that he made it come true. He spent a big part of his fortune filming and documenting the World. He paid for the latest and best equipment so the professionals traveling the Planet could record its landscapes, its monuments and its people. Within this photographic and cinematographic atlas of the World, there are 76 pictures of Córdoba taken in 1914.
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