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The Great Mosque of Cholula novohispana

19/12/2009 Dr. Mabuse 2

In an earlier chapter sat suspicion that Córdoba, through its Great Mosque, was, in the last, inspiring element of some samples of Spanish American colonial architecture. If we approach the matter that story of architecture […]

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Fitero casket

27/11/2009 admin 2

Ivory casket of the Monastery of Santa Maria la Real Fitero. Navarre. Small and carved ivory, it is dated Arqueta of Fitero, for registration, Year 966. It is a masterpiece of […]

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121 Cordoba capitals in the Giralda

23/11/2009 admin 12

Last Saturday, having tea at the home of Manuel parishioner, talked about the issues that usually also talked on this platform. At some point he left the issue of Imagined Museum of Cordoba, del que Manuel opinó que le parecía […]

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Looking Córdoba in Morocco (II)

16/11/2009 Manuel Harazem 13

As if Borges himself had designed one of his literary delusions, Made, FAS in Arabic, is a city essentially mirror. An apocryphal legend says that the name comes from the inverse reflection of a city that is impossible […]

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The Lion of Monsoon

16/11/2009 admin 0

[ad#baner-480] Aparecido en el siglo XIX en el Castillo de Monzón en Palencia, Se encuentra hoy en el Museo del Louvre de Paris, This bronze lion of Muslim origin, possibly taken as booty during the Christian reconquest, and that […]

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Córdoba in Aswan

09/11/2009 JULBE wife 0

El recuerdo de Córdoba y de su cultura trascienden, a pesar de determinadas instancias cordobesas, el ámbito español para hacerse universal. No es que esté asociado a la cultura y arte árabe-musulmán, si no que cuando éste quiere hacerse cosmopolita […]

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The Mosque of Cordoba in Chicago

08/11/2009 admin 1

In the Illinois Digital Archives I found this gem. Is the Spanish Pavilion at the World Expo in Chicago the year 1893. It is a recreation of the forest of columns of the Mosque (no cathedral) Cordoba. Some weeks ago […]

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Let me presume to friends

05/11/2009 admin 2

[ad#baner-480] Today you're going to allow me to take leave boast friend. Pues no todos los días tiene uno un amigo que en el mismo año recibe el Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, días después de […]