Córdoba, city in Spain. Medina Azahara and Courtyards

Córdoba, Roman,morish and christiann, the most relevant city of the European middle ages. Raised on the banks of the Guadalquivir, meeting of cultures, example of beauty and tolerance. In its Mosques, churches and synagogues coexisted Arabs, Christians and Jews. Córdoba spills history and monumental wealth. The capital of the caliphate andalusí, at the foot of Sierra Morena there gets up Medina Azahara, the great city founded by the caliph Abderramán III.

“Abd-al-Rahmán III was built a city palace in the year 940; today is one of the most important archaeological sets of Spain, Medina Azahara (Brilliant City). For its construction, there were used materials as valuable as the marble, ivory or ebony among others. A city with a short life since the Berbers would destroy it in the year 1010, when it stayed in ruins. This Archaeological Set, its undoubtedly, one of the major tourist attractions that the city has”.

It´s tourist offer is wide and beautiful, from its monuments (Synagogue, Roman Bridge, Mosque, Tower of the Malmuerta, etc.), its museums (Bullfighting Museum, House Andalusí, Viana’s Palace, etc.) up to its courts, the Courts of Córdoba, Heritage of the Humanity, Natives of Córdoba present its maximum brilliance during the Festival of the “Patios”, celebrated in the first fortnight of May of each year. After the recent declaration of the Party of the Patios of Córdoba like Intangible Heritage of the Humanity for the UNESCO, it has increased considerably the interest for this traditional festivity in Córdoba.

If you go to visit the courts of Córdoba, you cannot get lost the courts of the Old Fortress or Viana’s Palace. The to the Popular Courts od the Old Fortress has the intention of removing across de time to the origins of the city, to understand how there has gone evolver the term and the meaning of court, throughout the years. We will know the concept “Tenement house”, will relate to the owners, its experiences, its daily work, etc.

The visit to the Courts of Viana’s Palace is more centred on the court since not only its treats the popular court as neighbors’ house / neighboring, in addition there approaches the lordly court, a part of the history that is not so known, but that undoubtedly presents a historical and artistic relevant value. They will have the opportunity to know the most ancient popular court of Córdoba, of Moslem type, other one based on the taste of the 19th century, and lordly others as the garden I am used Frenchman.