House of Sepharad

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Monday to Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sundays and holidays from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

 

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Other nearby places of interest are the Royal Alcazar, the Mosque and the Archaeological Museum.

 

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The museum's collection is displayed infive rooms distributed around You will enter a beautiful central courtyard that has a well and the traditional tiled floor decorated with Jewish symbols. These spaces deal with everyday life where we can contemplate their clothes and daily utensils, about the female figure with wonderful portraits of famous women made by the artist José Luis Muñoz, about his religious celebrations and sacred objects, about the importance of the Jewish quarter and the synagogue of Cordoba in the Middle Ages and ends the topic with < strong>Sephardic music and the instruments used by them. Throughout the tour we find plans, information panels, photographs, as well as an educational space dedicated to the prestigious doctor and philosopher from Córdoba, Maimónides, considered a reference of medieval thought, having an innovative and didactic museographic plan throughout the entire visit.


On the other hand, all kinds of cultural activities such as concerts, poetry recitals, theater performances, book presentations and musical performances in addition to serving as a center for research, dissemination and development of the Sephardic communityat the national level thanks to the important funds related to the topic of the history of the Sephardic Jewish community. which its large library specialized in this topic has.

 

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In 2006, the carried out a private project that aimed to recover the legacy of all the Jews who one day lived in the largest Jewish quarter in Spain and which today is the best preserved in Europe. At the beginning of the 21st century it was considered It is absolutely necessary to have this heritage created by numerous Sephardic poets, philosophers and intellectuals and show it to future generations so that it never falls into oblivion. The House of Memory is located within the Cordoban Jewish quarter, a few meters from the synagogue, in a building built in the 14th century and renovated to function as a museum where a series of >objects related to the life and customs of the community, as well as as the Sephardic intangible heritage that has survived throughout the centuries.

 

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