Court of Grids in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)
Court of Grids
The courtyard of grids is called like this because of the low grids, installed in the
walls of the enclosure, through which the Street Rejas de Don Gome appears; so this street gives the name to the courtyard. Like the Courtyard of the Gate it can be seen from the external part of the complex, when the gates are open.
Its building is related to 1624, when the architect Bartolomé de los Reyes y Cueto made the design of it, following the orders of Don Gome de Figueroa y Córdoba, the knight of Calatrava order and visitor of the same.
It has an almost rectangular plan and the floor is made with stonework creating a draw of rectangles white and blacks, in the
middle there is red marble circular fountain, ended by the cup of the pipe. All around the fountain there is a podium made with yellow stone and on it you can see some pots of cineraria marítima. The walls of the patio are covered by a great number of orange trees, lemon trees, and beautiful bergamotas. This is a typical way of decorating our gardens in our city, which is to locate the plant close to the wall and
then branches gardens.
As a curiosity, the Marquises of Viana used to watch the processions of the Anguishes Brotherhood, which pass next the Rejas de Don Gome Street. They are seen through this patio (court), when the named brotherhood had the site in the close fernandine church of Saint Augustine. Besides it is said that the procession stopped in front of the grids of this patio, and in addition to this it made a little turn around this. As José Benítez says: "Since the 44 till three years ago the Marquisis were watching all the Holy Weeks processions".
Species that live in the patio
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Centaurea Candidissima (Cetaurea) |
Lantana Camara (Little Spanish Flag) |
Text: J.A.S.C.
Traslated by Sara Moretti
Art, Culture and Tourism in Cordoba