Each May in Cordoba,
El Concurso de los Patios, The Patio Celebration/Competition, takes place, and
los Cordobeses don their patios in their finest regalia to compete for the best patio of the year. The criteria ranges from amount and color of flowers, to height of the patio with flower placement, and other categories that I can't remember. Some of the best patios remain open for visitors in the summer, and while the flowers have started to fade a wee bit, I got to see several patios alone...in May the visitors are shoulder to shoulder with lines winding for blocks....I would never be able to capture then what I was able to see this July...
The best patios are in the
Juderia, the Jewish quarter, and many of the homes here were built during the
Moorish (Arab) period of Cordoba history. The Arabs build deep wells to capture water in small containers to then use to reach the flowers in the highest parts of the patio. My friend here is holding a traditional water-capturer-pourer....
....and he gets the water from this well (
pozo) :
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