Gonzalo J. Herreros Moya | Limes, Jasmines and Palm Trees: Córdoba, from Noble Gardens to Bourgeois Parks

Before the conception of modern parks and gardens, during the Early Modern period and the beginnings of the contemporary era, cities — Córdoba being a prime example — combined architecture and nature in an urban fabric which, though lacking today’s planning, was highly organic. Houses and churches stood side by side with monastic and private orchards, communal courtyards, and aristocratic gardens filled with fruit-bearing and aromatic flora. Moreover, in the final quarter of the 18th century, the first public promenades were designed, in line with the new bourgeois tastes, marking a transition towards the tree-lined and social model we know today.

Cycle of lectures Gardens: the Future of History
FLORA and UCO propose a series of lectures to disseminate knowledge and historical research on gardens and their changing social significance through the centuries.

This edition brings a special focus: using knowledge of the past to better address the challenges of valuing, recovering, managing, and making use of a complex heritage such as horticulture—both natural and cultural heritage at once. The best ideas to face the future may emerge from a mental stroll along lost, or simply forgotten, paths between the parterres of great palace gardens or the flowerpots of our ancestors’ patios.

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