Córdoba's craft and creative traditions: leather, silver filigree, painters and poets, plus how Game of Thrones and the Capital of Culture changed the city.https://www.explorecordoba.comhttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cantico-cordoba-poets-garcia-baenahttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cantico-cordoba-poets-garcia-baenaCántico was a Córdoba poetry magazine of 1947-57 run by García Baena, Molina and Bernier. How it became an island in post-war Spain, then was rediscovered.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:51:00 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/green-manganese-pottery-caliphal-cordobahttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/green-manganese-pottery-caliphal-cordobaHow verde y manganeso ceramics were made in caliphal Córdoba: a tin-lead white glaze, copper green, manganese black, two firings, and where the kilns stood.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:22:24 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/las-ketchup-asereje-cordoba-sisters-song-meaninghttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/las-ketchup-asereje-cordoba-sisters-song-meaningAserejé has no dictionary meaning. How three Córdoba sisters, a flamenco guitarist father and a small local label turned a rap-inspired chorus into a No. 1.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:24:50 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/miguel-rodriguez-church-door-guitars-cordobahttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/miguel-rodriguez-church-door-guitars-cordobaMiguel Rodríguez's Church Door guitars carry a name dealers explain three ways: an old door, a cathedral sound, a cut of rosewood. The family line is on record.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:30:02 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/manuel-reyes-flamenco-guitar-workshop-cordobahttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/manuel-reyes-flamenco-guitar-workshop-cordobaManuel Reyes Sr. built about 20 flamenco guitars a year and left a 15-year order book; what trade sources say about Córdoba's guitar maker and his son.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:42:55 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cordoba-mediterranean-capital-culture-dialogue-2027https://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cordoba-mediterranean-capital-culture-dialogue-2027Córdoba shares the 2027 Mediterranean Capital of Culture and Dialogue title with Saida, earned by a Caliphal-era history of translation, not modern myth.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:04:57 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cosmopoetica-2004-origin-storyhttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cosmopoetica-2004-origin-storyCórdoba lost its bid to become European Capital of Culture. The poetry festival born from that ambition in 2004, first led by Raúl Alonso, outlived it.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:46:42 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/hombre-rio-floating-sculpture-cordobahttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/hombre-rio-floating-sculpture-cordobaMeet Córdoba's Hombre Río, the unauthorised river sculpture that drew crowds, broke free in a flood and returned to public view in altered form at the zoo.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:30:20 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/tiraz-silk-workshops-cordobahttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/tiraz-silk-workshops-cordobaCórdoba ran al-Andalus's first state silk workshop, the dar al-tiraz, weaving robes of caliphal power before the industry shifted to Almería after 1031.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:30:51 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/pyxis-al-mughira-cordoba-ivoryhttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/pyxis-al-mughira-cordoba-ivoryThe Pyxis of al-Mughira is a 968 CE ivory box carved in Córdoba's Madinat al-Zahra workshop, its medallions read as a coded warning about caliphal succession.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:15:06 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/game-of-thrones-dorne-cordoba-architecturehttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/game-of-thrones-dorne-cordoba-architectureHBO's Game of Thrones built Dorne's look from medieval Córdoba's Umayyad architecture: horseshoe arches, muqarnas domes, though filming happened in Seville.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:54:36 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/history-of-flamenco-in-cordobahttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/history-of-flamenco-in-cordobaFrom Santa Marina's gitano quarter to the 1956 Concurso Nacional (won outright by Fosforito) to UNESCO in 2010: how Córdoba built its own flamenco tradition.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:09:22 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cordobans-in-dantes-infernohttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cordobans-in-dantes-infernoSeneca, Lucan, and Averroes: three Córdoba-born intellects who share a single canto of Dante's Inferno. Why the poet admired them yet placed them in Limbo.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:51:58 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cordoban-leather-cordwainerhttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cordoban-leather-cordwainerCórdoba gave English its word for shoemaker. How medieval goatskin tanned with sumac became Europe's finest leather and named a London guild still active today.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:00:15 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cordoba-silver-filigreehttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/cordoba-silver-filigreeSilver filigree Córdoba: the Umayyad craft of the Judería, nearly lost, then carried to Colombia. History, technique, and where to buy authentic pieces today.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:38:43 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/guadameci-cordoba-leatherhttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/guadameci-cordoba-leatherGuadamecí leather Córdoba: gilded sheepskin panels that furnished European palaces. History, technique, revival, and where to see it in the Judería today.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:07:34 GMThttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/sevillanas-vs-flamencohttps://www.explorecordoba.com/articles/sevillanas-vs-flamencoSevillanas 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.Wed, 20 May 2026 08:05:08 GMT