Seville, Cordoba, and Granada: A Cultural History Book

	Foreword
	Golden tower, great river	1
	City of the picaresque	4
	Death of a port	6
	Italica : hills of melancholy	8
	A city divided	10
	Olives, oranges and flavors of the south	12
	Holy week, holy office : Christ, virgins and the Inquisition	19
	Baroque beauty : Jesus del Gran	22
	Solemn processions	26
	La Macarena : dancing virgin	27
	The Inquisition and the Castle of St. George	29
	La Macarena : Ojeda the Modernizer	35
	Virgen Dolorosa : immaculate conception	37
	Conquest and slavery : Las Casas and Cervantes	39
	Lure of the Americas	40
	Humans or animals?	46
	Slavery on the cathedral step	48
	The royal jail : Cervantes in Seville	51
	La Cartuja : from Columbus to Calatrava	56
	Painters and art thieves	59
	Mr. Pickman the potter	62
	The 1992 Expo and romantic park	64
	Gustavo Adolfo Becquer : lovelorn poet	68
	The return of the admiral	73
	Expomania	75
	Port and gateway to America	78
	The Indies route	80
	Lonja de Mercaderes : new world moguls	84
	Murillo : painter of urchins	86
	The arenal : lowlife quarter	88
	The Indies archive : a propaganda exercise	92
	The "Columbina" : library in a cathedral	94
	The hospital of charity and the legend of Don Juan	97
	The hospital of holy charity	99
	Scenes of seduction	102
	Barrio de Santa Cruz : innocence and corruption	106
	Don Juan's neurosis	110
	Carmen : femme fatale	113
	The Royal Tobacco Factory	115
	The Cigarreras	118
	Holy smoke	124
	Cliche or essence?	128
	La Maestranza and La Feria : bulls, shawls and flounces	130
	Death in the afternoon	135
	Galleons and silk	136
	The Sevillian cover-up	140
	Feria de Abril : high society	144
	Woman's world	145
	A day at the Feria	148
	Franco's first foothold	151
	Reign of terror	155
	Prisoners' canal	158
	Rafael Alberti : poet of the sea	160
	Luis Cernuda : poet of the air	ä
	Valverde : "father of the Coto Donana"	165
	Flamenco : gypsy music	169
	Duende	173
	Up the Giralda on horseback	175
	Interpreting the gypsy world	17ä
	To the edge	185
	Seville southside	187
	Cordoba	190
	The Hammam	190
	The Mezquita and Medina Azahara : house of prayer and a palatial city	191
	Destruction and resurrection	196
	City walls : philosophers and poets	197
	Plaza del Potro : Picaros and romantics	206
	From Roman games to the Spanish Beatle	208
	Granada	212
	Medieval Alhambra and modern mosque	212
	Washington Irving, Gautier and tales of the Alhambra	214
	Weight of the past	217
	Lorca : birthplace and killing field	221
	Manuel de Falla	228
	Fascist monuments	232
	The Cathedral : enslaved artist and the crypt of kings	233
	Plaza Bib-Rambla : burning of the books	234
	The Moor's last sigh	236