Casa Góngora

This typical 17th-century mansion, which was used as the notary records archives until the late 20th century, was converted into a museum and centre for study through an arrangement between the Cordoba City Council and the Ministry of Public Works. Its 1085 gross square metres house an exhibition hall managed by the Cordoba City Council’s Department of Culture and the Góngora Academic Chair.

All the rooms in the mansion look out onto a large porticoed central patio that offers ventilation and light. The patio features a handsome pomegranate tree and the typical “Cordoba cobblestone”, a paving technique that serves not only aesthetic purposes: this traditional mix of stone and sand allows the patio to be sprayed with water on hot afternoons, cooling the air without creating puddles.