The Potro square
The colt fountain and Quixote's inn — Spain's literature in stone.
Américo Toledano — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Katsushika Hokusai, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (1760 - 1849) – Artist (Japanese) Details on Google Art Project — Public domain · Slaunger — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Daderot — CC0
The square's own son Julio Romero de Torres — iconic painter of the 'Cordoban woman' whom the city adores: his famous dark canvases in his adjoining house-museum. Spaniards head there first — our reader may complete the square with its small ticket at choice.
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Córdoba's Fine Arts Museum inhabits the city's loveliest literary address: the Plaza del Potro that Cervantes immortalised in Don Quixote — the old Charity Hospital holding Córdoba's school across the centuries: post-reconquest Gothic to Valdés Leal's Baroque and young Julio Romero's modernity. It is the quiet hour's museum at two euros (free for EU citizens): an orange-and-fountain courtyard, measured halls, and two neighbours on the same square — the more famous Romero de Torres museum and Cervantes' Potro inn — making the stop naturally threefold. For the visitor done with Córdoba's giants wanting a shaded, crowdless afternoon: this is their square.
The colt fountain and Quixote's inn — Spain's literature in stone.
Oranges and the old Charity's fountain.
Plaza del Potro 1, 14002 Córdoba