Blazing sun and cloudless sky. Sandy terrains dotted with palm trees that make me think of Palm Spring. Except Palm spring doesn't have a 14th century castle towering imposingly in the background.
In the Mezquita, traces of Christianity in what was a predominantly Muslim (and gloriously so) structures. It almost seems as if, with the original Muslim/Ottoman structure of the Mezquita so glorious and grand, the re-conquerors (the takeover of Spain by the Christians from the Muslim rulers) only managed to "Christian-ize" only a part of the structure. They did do a spectacular job of it though, and the white-plastered, gold-trimmed area of the Mezquita they altered now sticks out like a sore, but heavily jeweled thumb.
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Amazing wrought iron details that cast the most spectacular shadows.
Whitewashed walls, blue pots and greenery in courtyard gardens, amongst narrow alleyways once meant for pedestrians and one-horse carriages. Every turn a surprise and yet echoes of the familiar white-green, accented with bursts of colours from the blooms painstakingly cultivated by the Cordobans.
Cordoba, Andalusia - October 2011.
In the Mezquita, traces of Christianity in what was a predominantly Muslim (and gloriously so) structures. It almost seems as if, with the original Muslim/Ottoman structure of the Mezquita so glorious and grand, the re-conquerors (the takeover of Spain by the Christians from the Muslim rulers) only managed to "Christian-ize" only a part of the structure. They did do a spectacular job of it though, and the white-plastered, gold-trimmed area of the Mezquita they altered now sticks out like a sore, but heavily jeweled thumb.
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Amazing wrought iron details that cast the most spectacular shadows.
Whitewashed walls, blue pots and greenery in courtyard gardens, amongst narrow alleyways once meant for pedestrians and one-horse carriages. Every turn a surprise and yet echoes of the familiar white-green, accented with bursts of colours from the blooms painstakingly cultivated by the Cordobans.
Cordoba, Andalusia - October 2011.
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