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The Córdoba Patio Festival 2014


We arrived in Córdoba in time for the annual Patio Festival fortnight (from the 5th to 18th May in 2014). This is an amazing event when around seventy courtyards in and around the old town open their doors to the public in the mornings and evenings. Free route maps are handed out and just small donations are requested by the owners. The sheer range of flower displays and the amazing settings make it an unmissable event. We walked into the city centre in the evening to visit about twenty in the maze of narrow streets around the mosque and Jewish quarter, and caught the bus from the campsite the next morning to visit more patios in the old town near the Alcazar. We discovered it was better to visit in the evening when there were no coach parties around and the queues to enter the patios were shorter.
Here are just a few images of the spectacular colours on display.

Cordoba patio detail

Cordoba patio detail

Cordoba patio flower bowl
                             

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After a lazy afternoon recovering from walking around the city, the next day we set off to the north of the city and climbed up narrow roads to a large country park with extensive views across the plains then drove a few kilometres east to the small town of Villafranca de Córdoba where we came across another amazing event . . .