Sunset Cordoba Spain
by Joan Carroll
Title
Sunset Cordoba Spain
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
One evening I walked down to the Guadalquivir River and across the Puente Romano in Cordoba Spain in order to photograph the bridge and Mezquita as the sun went down. As darkness fell, the sky to the west was as spectacular as the lit bridge and Mezquita were to the north! So I swiveled back and forth taking photographs first of one, then the other. This structure had no identifying signage so it remained a curiosity for several days. It was towards the end of my visit in Cordoba that I found some signage explaining what this structure in the river was. It is called Molino de San Antonio and I used ‘Google translate’ to learn the following (pardon any inaccuracies from Google translate!) This structure and several others like it in the river were some sort of mill and were an important part of the economy of the medieval Arab city that was once here. Possibly, the mills are a late Roman construction, since citations are found in Arab documents from the 8th century. They have operated over the centuries as flour mills, paper factories, in the production of dyes, and to obtain water. The poetry of the signage was unmistakable as the translation goes “Among the remains of old riverside forests and the flutter of almost one hundred and twenty different species of birds in the groves, they rise in the middle of the Guadalqivir channel, not one, but eleven mills….”
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Joan carroll, building, ancient, historic, sunset, colorful, reflections, architecture
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