In the wall of sculpture San Rafael, close Door of Córdoba, there is this poem of Góndora. In the stone is grabed:
"A CÓRDOBA '
¡Oh excelso muro, oh torres coronadas
de honor, de majestad, de gallardía!
¡Oh gran río, gran rey de Andalucía ,
de arenas nobles, ya que no doradas!
¡Oh fértil llano, oh sierras levantadas,
que privilegia el cielo y dora el día!
¡Oh siempre glorïosa patria mía,
tanto por plumas cuanto por espadas!:
si entre aquellas rüinas y despojos
que enriquece Genil y Dauro baña
tu memoria no fue alimento mío,
nunca merezcan mis ausentes ojos
ver tu muro, tus torres y tu río,
tu llano y sierra, ioh patria, oh flor de España !"
It's a sonnet from the poet to the city.
LUIS DE GÓNGORA
"Luis de Góngora (1561-1627) is the most original and influential poet of the entire Spanish Golden Age . His poetic work of him breaks molds and inaugurates a new language whose virtuality, still insurmountable, continues to set directions in contemporary poetry.
The bright and the dark in Góngora arise from the same protein root, capable of facing the double mirror in which we all look at ourselves; expanding, at the same time, the dimension of its limits. El Polifemo and Las Soledades are the two most imaginative and complex works of universal poetry, challenging human intelligence and reason, showing us a path that no one else knew how to glimpse."
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