Gardeners Court in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)
Gardeners Court
After a little row we arrive t the Gardeners’ Courtyard, you go down through a door formed by a roman arch and four steps. The patio receives this name because 
there was a room into which the gardeners’ tools were kept, also it was the gardeners' room.
It is a little more simple than the others, it is a long courtyard with irregular plan. However we can describe it as a cordovan patio (court) where its white walls are covered, almost totally, by a great number of flowers, in this case jasmines and geraniums. It occupies a part of
what was the Country House, in charge of keeping the staff who came from the rustic farm houses when they arrived in Cordoba. The main entrance was in the gate of Don Gome Square.
The border facing the entrance is formed by a wall covered by a celestina that born in a brick flowerbed in which the grow different geraniums. In the other side there is the façade of the palace, into which different arches are open
, the upper ones correspond to the grid balconies and windows, the lower ones to the windows painted in blue.
The floor is covered with fine and plain bricks, and almost in the middle there is a fountain, made in grey marble with a pond, which is decorated with vegetable. Almost all the doors are flanked by plain columns, similar to the others used in the previous courtyards, like the recibo and filer ones. The balconies, with their grids, are decorated with vegetable. Besides , the recent tile reminds that the almazara of the Lagoon was inaugurated in the presence of King Alphonse XIII (1886 - 1931) in 1926.
Species that live in the patio
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Buxus Sempervirens (Boj) |
Pelargonium Zonale (Geranium) |
Text: J.A.S.C.
Traslated by Sara Moretti
Art, Culture and Tourism in Cordoba