Córdoba Old Town, Spain

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Oh, sunny Andalusia! I would probably die in the summer heat, so I gladly seized the opportunity for a winter trip to two of its gems, Córdoba and Granada. In late December, the weather was more than pleasant – we were greeted by sunny days with temperatures rising to almost 20 °C (68 °F). What a contrast to the winter solstice in Prague, where the sun struggles to ascend and quickly falls behind the horizon, as early as 4 pm. However, winters in southern Spain bring chilly nights with temperatures hovering around zero. So heed the advice of Spanish moms who regardless of the weather keep saying: "Take your jacket." You'll need it this time of the year. In the summer, the Córdoba region is the hottest in Spain and Europe, with average daily highs around 37 °C (99 °F).

Slunnou Andalusii bych si v horkém létě moc neužil, a tak jsme se tam vypravili v prosinci. I proto, aby už tam @tazi v únoru nemusel (dělám si srandu, klidně vyraz!). Tři dny a dvě města, Córdoba a Granada. Zatímco v Česku slunce sotva vykoukne nad obzor a už zase padá, v Andalusii je i kolem zimního slunovratu opravdu slunečno. Ve dne skoro 20 °C, krátce po poledni je to takové pozdní jaro. Ale v noci teplota padá k nule, a tak je dobré tentokrát poslechnout tradiční povel španělských matek do každého počasí: "Vezměte si bundu." V zimě se bude hodit. V létě je tenhle region nejteplejší ve Španělsku i celé Evropě, průměrná denní maxima jsou kolem 37 °C.


Córdoba is a city of oranges. Orange trees grace every corner, bursting with pure white blossoms in spring and brimming with fruits later on. They're in streets, parks, and even the famous Mezquita-Catedral gardens. You might wonder why nobody eats them; I certainly did. They are perfectly edible but incredibly bitter-sour. I tried one and couldn't manage more than a small bite.

Córdoba je město pomerančů. Pomerančovníky rostou úplně všude. V ulicích, parcích i v zahradách slavné mešity-katedrály. Na jaře jsou obsypané bílými květy a později plody. Ty jsou sice jedlé, ale strašně hořkokyselé. Pozřel jsem stěží jedno sousto. I proto je ze stromů nikdo netrhá.


It's also a city of cats, much like many other southern European places. The city council even protects the stray cats, granting permission to selected volunteers to feed them regularly. They squat abandoned houses in the city center, and you can encounter them almost everywhere. I imagine in the summer, these little predators would be more active. This time, they merely sunbathe wherever they could.

A je to i kočičí město, což není na jihu Evropy nic divného. Místní radnice trestá jakoukoli formu kočičího útlaku a vybírá dobrovolníky, kteří mohou toulavé kočky oficiálně krmit. Ty obsadily opuštěné budovy v centru a toulají se ulicemi. V létě budou určitě podstatně živější, teď v zimě se jen vyhřívaly na slunci, kde se zrovna dalo.


The fanciest cat sunbathing spot is undoubtedly this abandoned waterwheel at the Guadalquivir River, just a stone's throw away from the Roman Bridge I'll take you to shortly. Despite the river appearing modest, Andalusia experiences heavy rains that can cause a substantial rise in water levels. The mill, with a history dating back to the 12th century, operated only seasonally in the past. Today, it has found a new purpose as a haven for cats. Judging by the scattered feathers, it also serves as Córdoba's largest bird trap. How many cats can you spot there?

To nejfajnovější kočičí útočiště v Córdobě je určitě tenhle opuštěný mlýn na břehu řeky Guadalquivir. Je jen kousek od starého Římského mostu, na který vás za chvilku vezmu. I když Guadalquivir vypadá jako malá říčka, v Andalusii jsou běžné prudké deště, které dokáží zvednout hladiny řek o několik metrů. A tenhle mlýn, jehož nejstarší předchůdce tu stál už ve 12. století, mlel obilí sezónně, když zrovna byla voda. Dneska slouží kočkám. A podle peří rozesetého po okolí jde i o největší ptačí past v Córdobě. Kolik koček napočítáte?

It's time for a bit of history. Originally an Iberian town, Córdoba was seized by the Romans in the 2nd century BC and flourished under their rule. The Roman Bridge dates back to the early 1st century BC, though it has been repeatedly torn down by floods and rebuilt over the years. The original bridge had one extra arcade compared to its current appearance – it lost one during one of the Moorish reconstructions. This brings us to a crucial part of Andalusian history – it was under Arab rule for seven centuries. Córdoba was "reconquisted" earlier than, let's say, Granada, in 1236.

A teď je čas na malý historický exkurz. Původně iberské město dobyli ve 2. století před Kristem Římané, a za jejich vlády se Córdobě dařilo. Kamenný Římský most je z 1. století před Kristem. Původního už na něm pochopitelně není nic, za ty dva tisíce let ho nesčetněkrát strhly povodně. A navíc během jedné z maurských rekonstrukcí přišel o jeden oblouk. Jak asi víte, Andalusie byla sedm století arabská. Córdoba byla nicméně Kastilií dobyta dříve než Granada, už v roce 1236.


The monumental building peaking over the bridge gate is the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I’ll cover it in my next post, it definitely deserves a stand-alone one.

Monumentální budova, která vykukuje za mostem, je slavná mešita-katedrála, světová památka UNESCO. Věnuju jí vlastní post.


Now, let's move to the Roman temple, whose remains were excavated in the 1950s. Its re-erected columns stand at the edge of the original Roman town, close to the current City Hall. The original temple dates back to the 1st century AD.

Přesuňme se tedy k římskému chrámu, jehož pozůstatky byly odhaleny v padesátých letech minulého století. Repliky původních sloupů stojí na kraji starého římského města, nedaleko dnešní radnice. Původní chrám byl postaven v prvním století.


Not far from the Roman temple is the main square of the typical Spanish appearance. While it could easily be named Plaza Mayor or Plaza del Sol, the one in Córdoba goes by the name Plaza de la Corredera.

Kousek od římského chrámu je hlavní náměstí, které vypadá typicky španělsky. Mohlo by se jmenovat třeba Plaza Mayor nebo Plaza del Sol, ale to córdobské se jmenuje Plaza de la Corredera.


While in Córdoba at the end of December, I couldn't miss the typical "Fería" with the Christmas market. Even in Spain, Santa Claus is gradually displacing the traditional Three Wise Men (Los Reyes Magos), even though Spaniards still exchange presents on January 6.

A protože jsme v Córdobě byli na konci prosince, nemůžu vynechat typickou "fería" s vánočními trhy. I na jihu Španělska už Santa Claus vytlačuje tradičnější Tři krále, přestože si Španělé dávají dárky až 6. ledna.


And that's it for today. Stay tuned for the rest of my Andalusian trip!

A to je pro dnešek vše. Pokračování už brzy!





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main square of the typical Spanish appearance. While it could easily be named Plaza Mayor

If I didn't know the post was about Cordoba, I would have thought you posted a picture from Madrid's Plaza Mayor... 🙂

Excellent post 👏
I look forward to the continuation of your Andalusian story.

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Well, yes, there's a "Plaza Mayor" in most Spanish cities and towns ;)

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It looks like a Madrid Plaza Mayor to me. The same wall color, the same number of floors 🙂

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My oh my!! What's beauty to behold. I could stay here for years without food or water, haha just kidding, but this place is beautiful. I'm sure you had an amazing time here .

Can anyone just pluck an orange?

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You definitely can, but there's no pleasure in eating it ;)

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Oh really, I guess that's why they're so many everywhere.

I think the people who planted it knew exactly what they were doing, because if it was sweet, people would've plucked them 😅

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What would be wrong on people eating them? I mean somebody does it every now and then, tourists usually.

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I guess if they were very sweet, there wouldn't be any orange to beautify the place.
Yeah, tourists would, but after tasting and knowing it's sour, they wouldn't want to pluck more.

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They flower in spring and then fruit for about half a year before they ripen. Nobody sane would pluck unripe orange, so the streets would still be decorated until say January.

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By the acidic the oranges are, I imagine that nobody will eat them directly, but they must make some kind of recipe with them like jams or a liqueur, they are very abundant and should not be wasted 😅

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They are everywhere and nobody picks them, so most likely, there's no real use for them but to decorate the city.

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Thank you for this wonderful insight into Córdoba and Granada! I know very little about them.

I felt a certain nostalgia reading your words. It's true that last year when I spent a few months in Spain, I was struck by the orange trees and the stray cats. After that, I'm not on a leash, so I could very well go to Andalusia if I wanted to, but each project in its own time haha!

Thanks for sharing your experiences, it makes me want to go back to Spain!

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Well, Cyprus and Malta are the true cat heavens, go there if you'd like to see them wandering literally everywhere. Even the Balearic Islands brim with them :)

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Wow - so much to see there. I was quite surprised at the size of the water wheel - much bigger than any other one I've seen - that must have provided some power ! Also I loved the old bridge and the Roman ruins. What a load of history. Oh and the orange trees too ! What a lovely place !
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Spain's an amazing country :) No wonder many Scotsmen buy a second house there ;)

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Lol - yes they do dont they. The weather is a little better than it is here in Scotland !!!

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It depends :) I'd hardly die of heat or cold in Edinburgh, yet Málaga summer could kill me for sure ;)

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Very true - but the bag pipes will deafen you in summer here !

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Already vaccinated! There's hardly a bigger bagpipe event than the one in Strakonice, South Bohemia. Hundreds of marching bagpipe players there and back, nobody can escape:

https://www.visitczechia.com/en-us/things-to-do/events/2022/08/e-international-bagpipe-festival-strakonice

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Wow - thats quite impressive !!! I never knew !

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Bagpipes whine in many countries in Europe :) True, only the Scots wear skirts whilst playing them ;)

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We like bringing the sound of strangled cats to the world. We are also the best octopus wrestlers in the world as a result !

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I've never seen octopus wrestling. Gotta put it on my bucket list!

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Já vidim dvě, ale jsem fakt unavenej a slepej :))

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Na tom kole jsou minimálně tři:

A pak tam bylo ještě pár dalších, které ale z tohohle úhlu nejsou vidět :)

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Ta třetí nad nimi mě právě minula :)

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A few days ago I myself went to the orange grove in the same way and it was a very special place and very beautiful and all these places look very beautiful.

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This place gives me the same vibes as Malaga but I don’t know if they are close to each other hehe. It’s been a while since I visited Spain and you just made me want to go there again!

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Córdoba is just over an hour's drive from Málaga :)

Leo has many glitches that prevent me from using it more frequently. Maybe when most of them are fixed. Plus there's a lot of negative sentiment towards it among the Czech community due to the manner some of people promoted it in Czech. Thanks for your suggestion, though, i will bear it in mind :)

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Yeah we've had some issues in the past, but the platform is now more stable, perhaps you want to give it a try.

Also if you can point me in the direction of the sentiment maybe I can talk to the community to solve their questions/help them with the user experience, I don't know who promoted in Czech but maybe it can be fixed :D

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It surely can be fixed :) It's just a sentiment that would not linger on once Leo works as it is intended to :)

I might give it a try soon, still have some posts from this trip up my sleeve.

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It surely can be fixed :) It's just a sentiment that would not linger on once Leo works as it is intended to :)

I might give it a try soon, still have some posts from this trip up my sleeve.

Edit: By the way, there are no bans or similar penalties for non-financial content anymore, right?

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No! Actually you can post to any community now, inLeo works the same way aas every other frontend, you can post to any community (and you can use the tag inleo to earn $leo).

If you can arrange a chat or an AMA with the Czech community I'd be glad to attend and solve all doubts and clear any bas experiences from before :D

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Oh, good to know. Thanks for clarifying it.

I guess the AMA will not be attended anyways, we're sort of lazy ;)

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Hahahaha it could be written, or you could compile the questions/complains/doubts and I could address them for the lazy ones hehe

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Thanks, I'll get back to you when some doubts arise.

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So heed the advice of Spanish moms who regardless of the weather keep saying: "Take your jacket." You'll need it this time of the year.

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I am reminding this every morning to my son when he leaves home haha, as in the midday you can almost be fine with a T-shirt but the early mornings and late evenings are cold.

Hahaha, the cats found cool places to sunbath in that mill 😃

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Of course you do :)) Once we have children, my girlfriend will take this line for sure :) And I'll be like: "Come on! You're half-Czech and it is not freezing yet!" ;)

Then I will have to stop saying such things, or start sleeping on the sofa :))

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Haha, or you join her with this advice in the end :p

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Nah, there must be at least bit of Slavic approach in my parenting :))

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I have heard that citrus fruits need cold to be sweet. If you put a jacket on them, of course they will be sour. 🤣

Thank you for this trip... very nice pictures.

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So the Cuban mums don't tell kids to take jacket regardless the weather?

I am not sure about the cold-sweet thing, I have never heard about sweet Scandinavian or Siberian citruses ;)

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Research is needed.
My mum would put me in a glass urn, 😜😅 that's why I live far away from her haha.

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Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't known.

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Just kidding hombre, hahaha... I live far away from her but that's not the reason. My mother is my life, I adore her and yes, of course she always recommends me to keep warm even though it's hot as hell here.

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I read somewhere that oranges aren't to be eaten by individuals due to health risks...but are harvested and used for the production of marmalade. I hope to visit there on a vacation with my man soon.

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What sense would make not eating them fresh and rather mixing the juice with sugar and pectin or something to eat them as marmelade?

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I have never thought of that but oranges aren't supposed to taste sour.I guess that explains it

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Beutiful place, I loved the architecture and the columns look magnificent. Do those oranges get used for anything, I know you said they tasted sour. Are they purely decorative, or is there any other use for sour oranges? Guess that’s better than sour grapes right LOL!

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The oranges were ripe when we were there, some had already started to fall, but no one was picking them. I believe they are purely decorative.

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We have mentioned Córdoba so many times in our home, but we have never been there, so thanks for sharing these photos... One day we will pay a visit! I would say that you picked the perfect time of the year, as in summer daily temperatures rarely go UNDER 40-45 Degrees!!
Looking at the photos that main square looks almost exactly like the one in Madrid, or in Salamanca... As you said, typical Spanish square...


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There are still some more pickture up my sleeve, stay tuned for the Mosque–Cathedral and the Jewish quarter :)

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This cats look very relax there 😆👌👌👌 I think they get also good food 😋👌👌👌

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Volunteers feed them regularly, so they do get good food.

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Lucky cats ... if they be in Estonia , they fill not have so good life on streets .

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Well, there are zillions of stray cats in southern Europe, especially on the Mediterranean islands, since the conditions suit them better than those in the Baltics.

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Zběsile pendlujíc mezi Prahou a Opavou, takže zatím takhle a ještě se stavím :)

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Díky :) To jsi asi nečekal, že z tebe jednou bude pendler :))

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No, už to opravdu není jako dřív, kdy nebyl problém se s jedním batohem přestěhovat na druhý konec světa :) Najednou je i pro pouhý přesun v rámci naší malinké zemičky potřeba dodávky a spousty zařizování :/

Post super, kvalitní a živý engagement, adekvátní kurátorská podpora. Tleskám. Jenom si oprav ty hořké pomeranče ;) Umím si představit, jak kyselé byly. Když jsme žili na Azorech, tak u jednoho z domků, kde jsme bydleli, byl malý mandarinkový sad. Nádherné, šťavnaté mandarinky, ale tak kyselé, že byly prakticky nepoživatelné, takže jsem je používali místo citronu :D

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Když ony to opravdu jsou plody pomerančovníku hořkého. A na chuť byly spíš hrozně hořké než kyselé. Ale měl jsem jen ždibec, víc to nešlo :)

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Aha, tak v tom případě si oprav anglickou verzi :) Na hořké pomeranče jsem každopádně ještě nenarazil...

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No, tak jsem to vyřešil lišácky. Jsou hořkokyselé :))

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Great water wheel as well! I'm certainly going to get back to see something more from the city than the "judería" and the outside part of the Mezquita. !LUV

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