Trinity Square in Cordoba, Spain
Trinity Square
Dominates and gives the name to the Plaza de la Trinidad (Trinity Square) the
Church of Saint John and All the Saints that perviously belonged to the Convent of the Trinitarians. A convent founded by King Ferdinand III the Saint after 1236.
Merely we don`t know how was the primitive church of the convent, but we know that the roof fell down in the XVI Century. Thank to the generosity of Don Martin de Córdoba and his daughter Doña Teresa, the church could be mended. Not very good were the mendings when a century later the church was in ruins. For this reason a new church was built with a new plan and it was inaugurated ten years later, the day of the Holy Trinity of the year
1705.
The church has a latin plan with a unique navecovered with a barrel vault with lunettes. At the bottom of the church there is the choir covered by a vault, in this case the lunettes are decorated as a fresco. It seemed that the whole walls were painted like this. The transept is covered by a dome o groins. Inside it you can see the Holy Christ of Health, an anonymous of the XVIII Century; this image is owner of the Vía Crucis Brotherhood. Belonging to the Holy Face Brotherhood is the image
of Our Father Jesus the Nazarene, performed by sculpter Antonio Dubé de Luque and Holy Mary of the Trinity, performed by Antonio del Salto. The images of these two brotherhoods, from Holy Monday and Holy Tuesday respectively, are treated at greater length in the Holy Week section of this Web.
The decorated façade contrasts with the whiteness of its wals ended with a triangular pediment, with two oculus and the roman arch in the middle. The façade has a roman arch flanked by double Doric columns on a wainscot with plain metopes and tryglyphs. In
the second part there is the solomonic columns, and it was used the first time. Then we can admire a group of sculptures into a niche. An angel dressed with the trinitary toga helps two convicted. The tower bell is a espadaña (a wall with the bell inside it).
In front of the church there is the Palace of the Dukes of Hornachuelos or Hoces House, a noble house whose aspect remind the 1965 restoration. Nowadays is the Fine Arts School. Of the ancient palace we have only the façade, the main staircase and the
gaden. Inside it we only find two headstones that reminds the famous pupils that attended the lessons there: Mateo Inurria Lainosa was one of them. Even he was the director of this school and Julio Romero de Torres, the painter, was teacher, but not there. He worked in the another branch of the school, in Agustín Moreno street.
But this popular square of Córdoba, who thank God belongs to the increasingly extensive fact is, the pedestrian
squares, it keeps us one more surprise, the memory of one of the most remembered and admired cordovan person, Don Luis de Góngora. It is important to remember that in a house close to the square Luis de Góngora, the poet died. He died in a house situated in the Las Campanas Street - name like this by the bells in the steeple of Trinity Church - and today Sánchez de La Feria Street. There is a board that remembers this: "In this place on 23rd May 1627 the famous Cordovan poet died, leaving this suvenir to the literature lovers".
In the square there is a sculpture performad by Amadeo Ruiz Olmos in 1967. This one a teacher at the fina arts school. On the day of the inauguration many famous people came to the event, as Dámaso Alonso. This deserved it.
Church of Saint John and All the Saints that perviously belonged to the Convent of the Trinitarians. A convent founded by King Ferdinand III the Saint after 1236.
Merely we don`t know how was the primitive church of the convent, but we know that the roof fell down in the XVI Century. Thank to the generosity of Don Martin de Córdoba and his daughter Doña Teresa, the church could be mended. Not very good were the mendings when a century later the church was in ruins. For this reason a new church was built with a new plan and it was inaugurated ten years later, the day of the Holy Trinity of the year
1705.
The church has a latin plan with a unique navecovered with a barrel vault with lunettes. At the bottom of the church there is the choir covered by a vault, in this case the lunettes are decorated as a fresco. It seemed that the whole walls were painted like this. The transept is covered by a dome o groins. Inside it you can see the Holy Christ of Health, an anonymous of the XVIII Century; this image is owner of the Vía Crucis Brotherhood. Belonging to the Holy Face Brotherhood is the image
of Our Father Jesus the Nazarene, performed by sculpter Antonio Dubé de Luque and Holy Mary of the Trinity, performed by Antonio del Salto. The images of these two brotherhoods, from Holy Monday and Holy Tuesday respectively, are treated at greater length in the Holy Week section of this Web.
The decorated façade contrasts with the whiteness of its wals ended with a triangular pediment, with two oculus and the roman arch in the middle. The façade has a roman arch flanked by double Doric columns on a wainscot with plain metopes and tryglyphs. In
the second part there is the solomonic columns, and it was used the first time. Then we can admire a group of sculptures into a niche. An angel dressed with the trinitary toga helps two convicted. The tower bell is a espadaña (a wall with the bell inside it).
In front of the church there is the Palace of the Dukes of Hornachuelos or Hoces House, a noble house whose aspect remind the 1965 restoration. Nowadays is the Fine Arts School. Of the ancient palace we have only the façade, the main staircase and the
gaden. Inside it we only find two headstones that reminds the famous pupils that attended the lessons there: Mateo Inurria Lainosa was one of them. Even he was the director of this school and Julio Romero de Torres, the painter, was teacher, but not there. He worked in the another branch of the school, in Agustín Moreno street.
But this popular square of Córdoba, who thank God belongs to the increasingly extensive fact is, the pedestrian
squares, it keeps us one more surprise, the memory of one of the most remembered and admired cordovan person, Don Luis de Góngora. It is important to remember that in a house close to the square Luis de Góngora, the poet died. He died in a house situated in the Las Campanas Street - name like this by the bells in the steeple of Trinity Church - and today Sánchez de La Feria Street. There is a board that remembers this: "In this place on 23rd May 1627 the famous Cordovan poet died, leaving this suvenir to the literature lovers".
In the square there is a sculpture performad by Amadeo Ruiz Olmos in 1967. This one a teacher at the fina arts school. On the day of the inauguration many famous people came to the event, as Dámaso Alonso. This deserved it.
Text: J.A.S.C.
Traslated by Sara Moretti
Art, Culture and Tourism in Cordoba