Frieze in Puerta de la Grada Redonda - Córdoba, Andalucía, España - Frieze Art on Waymarking.com

The door of the Round Grada is the most northerly of the east wall of the Mosque-Cathedral, almost cornered by the north wall. We find it very close to the Santa Catalina gate , and a few meters from the Caño Gordo gate .

Of the six doors that access the Patio de los Naranjos , four open onto the North gallery. Two of them go through the North wall itself, ( Puerta del Perdón and Puerta del Caño Gordo), while the other two are located facing each other, almost cornered on the side walls of the Mosque-Cathedral . The Milk shutter at the end of the western canvas, and the round Tier Gate at the eastern one.

What would be the fifth door of the North Gallery of the patio remains missing, but we can still intuit it. Among the modern wooden booths, where tickets are bought and radio guides are acquired, we find a window. Seen from the outside, the arch that was access to the patio is still marked. That door remained right in the wall that Almanzor had to demolish to carry out its expansion to the east.

The layout of the door of the round Grada corresponds to Tomás Jerónimo de Pedrajas , made in 1726. The accounts of the Factory reflect the payment of one thousand reais to the artist, on October 31 of the same year, for the direction of the work.

It will be this same author to whom the fountains of the Patio de los Naranjos are attributed , both the fountain of Santa María (1741) and the fountain of Cinnamon . And it is precisely for the execution of this last fountain that the round blue stone step that gave the door its name is removed. In 1731 this round slipway was undone to make the pylon of the Cinnamon fountain.

Round Tier Gate
The door is crowned by a profuse and complicated decoration that gives it the definition of Churrigueresque. The triangular finish in which shells, curved moldings and cutouts are combined, in a reduced space, is culminated by the Factory's shield. The current appearance of the portico is obtained after a reform carried out in 1738."

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Artist: Tomás Jerónimo de Pedrajas Address: Patio de los Naranjos Mezquita Catedral Cördoba Web URL to relevant information: Not listed

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