Cordoba City - Fascinating Fact 5 - Music and dance

Cordoba City - Fascinating Fact 5 - Music and dance from Andalucia

By Fiona Flores Watson

Some historic cities have places filled with local lore, steeped in tradition and history. Plaza de Potro is one such place - the potro is a colt on a fountain in the square, which hosted animal markets in medieval times. A former inn there, the 15th-century Posada del Potro, is mentioned in Don Quixote as a "den of thieves", and Cervantes most probably stayed at the inn when he visited the city (the writer lived in Cordoba as a child). The inn is now the Centro de Flamenco Fosforito, named after the singer, with exhibitions and activities themed around the popular Andalucian music and dance form.

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• Fact 3 - Sentimental and chocolate-boxy or lyrical and sensuous? Cordoba's most famous artist still provokes debate
• Fact 4 - Poets, philosophers and men of great learning - Cordoba produced some of history's greatest scholars
• Fact 5 - A historic square with a new flamenco centre in a medieval inn
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