Publisher's Synopsis
This ancient Cordoba, cradle of culture, jealously guards its secrets, it is a city where the romantic, the mysterious, beats in its streets orchestrating a dance between generations. Its courtyards, its houses, its palaces, its castles, its people and its customs are the fruit of each and every one of the peoples who have inhabited it over the centuries. History forges legends, and its legends drink from a history that invites you to dream. As Borges said, there are in it "places that seem to contain, hidden and intact, the integrity of the universe". Among its treasures, the city's monument par excellence is the Mosque-Cathedral, ordered by Abderramán I, the Immigrant, with the extraordinary surroundings of the Roman Bridge, the Calahorra Tower, the Alcazar of the Christian Kings, the Episcopal Palace, the Gate of the Bridge or the Triumph of San Rafael. Here, every corner, every stone, every balcony, every garden has its history or its traditional legend, passed down from father to son. This book is an invitation to explore the deep and legendary Cordoba through a walk through the surroundings that surround the most emblematic monument of Andalusian Islam, from the Campo Santo de los Mártires to the heart of the Mosque Aljama. All this, from the hand of someone who was born, raised and studied in those streets, in those courtyards, in that tower. "Legends of the Mosque of Cordoba" combines the memories of a happy childhood with local tales and legends, but also with the history collected in the chronicles and with some literary fragments of those who were trapped by its spell, passages that help to understand, imagine and dream the magic of Cordoba flooding the landscape with spirit.
