Doors of Spain, A Sampler (Part 2)

In Part 1 of our sampler of the Doors of Spain, we looked at doors of churches and palacios, the supersize doors, generally with a small human-size door or two cut out, at street level. The BIG doors would have made an NBA center nod in appreciation for an entryway that didn’t require crouching. (But highly doubtful any of those doors were fashioned with future basketballers in mind.)

In Part 2 we look at everday front doors in Córdoba and a bit beyond. As with Part 1, we really weren’t purposefully photographing cool doors to collect and share. Typically we were just heading somewhere in town and simply stopped to take a photo of something interesting. Which we did dozens of times. Which produced a pretty big stock of door photos, large and small.

We’ll start with some doors from out of town. I.e., not in our everyday stomping grounds in Córdoba. 10 random doors that randomly caught our fancy.

Many more doors caught our fancy in Córdoba. Because we spent so much more time ambling around town here. In the gallery of Córdoba doors we labeled and sorted the pictures by neighborhood. You may notice that there are more pix from the San Andrés/San Pablo neighborhood than other neighborhoods, because, well, that’s where we live. The greatest number of doors are those near our apartment, but it really doesn’t mean there are more picture-worthy doors in our neighborhood, only that we snapped more door pix here!

Eight of the fifteen neighborhoods, or barrios, in the Casco Historico — denoted here as Distrito Centro — are named for churches. We addressed this in our Ruta posts: King Ferdinand III chartered the building of more than a dozen parish churches in Córdoba that would be the seat of activities for new, post-reconquista, Córdobese population centers, or barrios. Build them and they will come, he said of the 13th century-ish churches.

Those barrios designated by the name of parishes, listed below and shown on the map, are either Fernandine churches or churches along the Córdoba Ruta. Those with a link represent churches we’ve featured in our Ruta series. In bold are the three churches we will feature in closing out our 10-part Ruta series.

• La Magdalena
• San Andrés–San Pablo
• San Francisco-Ribera
• San Lorenzo
• San Miguel-Capuchinos
• Santa Marina
• San Pedro
• Santiago

¡Vale! Let’s see some doors from our favorite city in Spain… Córdoba!!

It was fun to tie together the Ruta series we’ve been sharing with the neighborhoods and doors. And fun to reaffirm in photos where we’ve been wandering most about town.

¿Qué sigue? . . . What’s Next?

With our door sampler complete, we’ll be back next week to share some photos we took in January. We were sharing photos by month at this time last year then stopped doing so since we had so many other posts featuring our photos.

We’ll also have a look at the many triumphs to San Rafael around Córdoba, rather large columns featuring the arch angel Rafael, guardian of Córdoba (as below). And, of course, we have three more Ruta churches to finish out our series on these spectacular religious edifices.

¡Saludos de Los Dos!