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Córdoba's arts and culture: leather, filigree and poetry (Page 2)

Beyond the monuments: Córdoba's leatherwork and silver filigree workshops, its painters and poets, and its modern cultural moments, from a Game of Thrones filming location to the 2016 European Capital of Culture.

Close-up of an antique guadamecí leather Córdoba panel at warm golden-hour light, gilded embossed ataurique botanical scrollwork in relief against polychrome red and ochre sheepskin, gold leaf catching raking light at the ridges

Guadamecí: The Leather That Furnished Royal Courts

Sophie Marchand Updated

Guadamecí leather Córdoba: gilded sheepskin panels that furnished European palaces. History, technique, revival, and where to see it in the Judería today.

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Sevillanas vs flamenco: dancer in traje de flamenca performing in a Córdoba tablao, red-and-white striped arches in the background, castanets raised

Sevillanas vs Flamenco: What Tourists Always Confuse

Sophie Marchand Updated

Sevillanas is a four-copla folk dance anyone can learn in an afternoon. Flamenco takes years and depends on duende. Here's the real difference, explained.

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