Gardens at the Cordova's Palace is a photograph by RicardMN Photography which was uploaded on March 6th, 2014.
Gardens at the Cordova's Palace
Gardens at the Cordova's Palace, Granada, Andalucia, Spain.... more
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Gardens at the Cordova's Palace
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Gardens at the Cordova's Palace, Granada, Andalucia, Spain.
Climbing up from Granada via the "Paseo de los Tristes" and then up the "Cuesta de Chapiz", stands on the right one of the buildings which, as fate would have it, has been moved to this distant corner of the city. This is the Palacio de los C�rdova which was once situated in the city centre and now serves as an archive.
At first, the building was in the Descalza�s square and it was moved stone by stone to the Chapiz slope in the 16th century. The main building�s frontal is Renaissance where we can see the family�s coat of arms. Inside, the roofs are incredible, with a wood coffered ceiling and there is a beautiful Gothic atrium.
The palace is surrounded by a large garden with tall cypresses. On the floor of the main avenue we can see the typical Granada paving. Nowadays the building is used as the Municipal Archive of Granada.
A gate gives access a patio or courtyard with typical Granada cobbles. It has a gallery in its North sector and a fountain in the middle. It is surrounded by cypresses. Some brick arches limit the second little square with a lower fountain and mark the the cypresses path which drives us to the main gate. On the right there is a typical Granada orchard and on the lefte two paralel paths: the "romantic path" and the "laurel vault".
The Palace of Los C�rdova was built at Placeta de las Descalzas around 1530 and was finished by 1592. Its owner was Luis Fern�ndez de C�rdova, Great Lieutenant of Granada and Governor of the town of Villanueva de la Fuente. It is unknown when the C�rdova family sold this building. Francisco de Paula Valladar writes in 1911 that "after being factories, companies, wood warehouses, etc., it is today a property of a company or community which hires it for city warehousing purposes...". In 1919, after being bought by Ricardo Mart�n Flores, it was demolished in order to build the Gran Capit�n Theatre; however the important historic and artistic features were moved to the "Villa Mar�a" estate on the road to Pulianas.
In the 60s, these treasures were going to be transferred to C�rdoba. However, Mayor Manuel Sola convinced the Duke of Montellano, married to Hilda Fern�ndez de C�rdova, to rebuild the palace giving him 100.000 pesetas in advance. Following the plans of Architect �lvarez de Toledo from M�laga they start the reconstruction of the palace on a state located at the beginning of Cuesta del Chapiz. The construction works began in 1965. In 1983 the Granada City Council bought the Palacio de los C�rdova in order to instal there the City Historical Archive, opened to public in August 1984.
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