This weekend’s leisure and cultural agenda in Cordova emerges with the opening to the public of the facilities of the Flora Festivalwhich is experiencing its big days starting this Friday with seven days of open doors in which the event hopes to repeat, if not surpass, the success of previous editions.
This will also be a markedly musical weekend, with a very special event in the Los Califas bullring: the Cordobita Fest. More than eight hours of concerts with the biggest names and artists of Córdoba music from recent decades. On stage will be, among others, Medina Azahara, Las Ketchup, Los Aslándticos or Lya.
Also in a musical key, the Qurtuba Jazz program continues and the concert halls They liven up their agenda with the presence of Pancho Varona, Califato ¾ and Los Bengala.
And if you prefer to opt for gastronomic leisure, the weekend event is in Cardeña and its Lechón Fair. Take note of all the events scheduled from October 18 to 20.
Flora 2024
Floral installations, botany and vegetation are the protagonists of autumn with a new edition of the Flora Festival 2024which celebrates its seventh edition as one of the international references in floral architecture. Once again, he repeats his formula for success: five artists, five spaces and a theme, this time ‘Multispecies’, to surprise connoisseurs and visitors.
The organizers hope to exceed the 150,000 registered visits in 2023, despite the adverse weather, and are betting on the new edition by doubling the budget (400,000 euros) and with the programming of more than 100 parallel activities around the Festival.
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The event began last October 14 with the beginning of the installation of the installations and lives its big days from October 18 to 24 with the opening to the public of the five spaces where the five artists exhibit their creations. This year’s edition features the presence of Carolin Ruggaber (Germany), Coyote Flowers (Canada), Emily Thompson (United States), Eugenio Ampudia (Spain) and This Humid House (Singapore), who will exhibit their work at the Provincial Council of Córdoba, Palace of Viana, Courtyard of the Orange Trees of the Mosque-Cathedral, Palace of Orive and Courtyard of Vimcorsa.
Cordobita Fest
“Celebrate what is typically Cordoban, our accent, our essence.” With this premise, the Cordobita Festan event with which the management company of the bullring shows in CordovaGrupo Mundo, makes a nod to nostalgia to bring together in a single setting the big names in music made in Córdoba of the last decades.
The event, which takes place this Saturday, October 19, starting at 5:00 p.m., promises more than eight hours of music in which the party will not stop to the sound of classics and modern classics with a line-up composed of DJ Rafa León, Felipe Conde, Randy López, El Hombre Gancho, Lya, Las Ketchup, Los Aslándticos and Medina Azahara.
Galván Real, at the Axerquía Theater
Since his professional debut in his musical career, Galvan Real He has managed to reach millions of people around the world, singing to the purest romanticism with his peculiar raspy voice that characterizes him so much. The singer’s popularity is such that he already has a ‘no tickets’ sign posted for his concert in Córdoba.
The quote is the Saturday October 19at 9:00 p.m., at the Teatro de la Axerquía.
Cardeña Piglet Fair
From October 18 to 20, the Piglet Fair Cardenatown of Valley of the Pedroches famous for its Iberian pig products.
The event, which has Adamuz as a guest municipality, has the participation of 13 bars and restaurants, the presence of 24 stands and another 29 exhibitors with products from the region and the province, and from other locations such as Badajoz, Granada, Jaén, Madrid or Orense.
Qurtuba Jazz
Final touch of Qurtuba Jazz, whose program of concerts and activities started on October 8. Concerts are scheduled for this weekend. Patrick Cornelius Quartetthis Friday the 18th at the Góngora Theater; Lady & The Tramps, on Saturday at 8:00 p.m., at the Rafael Orozco Conservatory; and Knocking Monk Downat the Cine Fuenseca, on Sunday the 20th, at 12:00 p.m.
The Bengala, in the Hangar Room
The force of garage rock punk arrives for the first time in Córdoba this weekend with the group from Zaragoza The Bengals, who will present their new album, Danger of Extinctionin an unmissable concert by El Colectivo in the Sala Hangar. The appointment will be next Friday October 18, where the group promises to make the city’s public vibrate with their characteristic feline and wild sound.
Caliphate ¾, in the Impala Room
S Curro, The Gardener, Stay Puft, Industrias 94, Lorenzo Soria, Digital Diógenes and Esteban Bove are Califato 3/4. A group that has arrived to revolutionize the music scene in our country.
They arrive on tour to Córdoba with their ‘Ecclabo de libertá Tour’ he Saturday October 19 in the Impala Room.
Pancho Varona, in Long Rock
This Friday, October 18, Pancho Varona will present at the hall Long Rock his Punto y Seguido 2024 tour. The renowned guitarist and composer, who has collaborated with some of the greatest artists in the Spanish-speaking world, including Joaquin Sabina (last year, the Madrid singer gave a tour for the first time, that of Against all odds, without the company of Varona), with which He worked for 40 years, producing 15 of his albums.
Night Fantastic Film Festival
This Friday, October 18, the programming of the first Night Fantastic Film Festival begins, which will be held from October 18 to 27, with the programming of fantastic and horror films in the movie theaters in the capitaland the celebration of a convention starting on October 24 at the Córdoba Exhibition Center.
Autumn Market
The Iluminando Juntos association has organized this weekend in the Plaza de las Tendillas the first Autumn Market of Córdoba, an initiative that seeks to attract visitors to this commercial area of the city. To make up the market, each business that participates will offer the best of the season in a market that coincides with the Flora festival, a collaborator of the event. The stalls will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Concert by the Córdoba Orchestra
The Córdoba Orchestra celebrates a concert this Friday, October 18 to benefit the Medina Azahara Food Bank. The appointment is at 8:00 p.m., at the Gran Teatro.
Elektra.25, at the Grand Theater
The Atalaya Company presents a new version of the Greek classic, directed by Ricardo Iniesta, and Silvia Garzón, María Sanz and Raúl Vera, as protagonists. This Saturday, October 19, at 8:00 p.m., at the Gran Teatro.
Triple program at Teatro Avanti
The Avanti Theater schedules three shows this weekend, one of them for the whole family. On Friday the 18th, humor session with Jorge Santos and his show ‘Thirty is the new… Fuck you!; on Saturday the 19th, more humor with Pablo Ibarburu and his ‘Glamour Boy’; and on Sunday the 20th, family session (at 12:00 p.m.) with ‘Pinocchio: let’s tell lies’from the Teatre de la Caixeta company.
Musicals and Los Compadres at the El Brillante Theater
Also three days of shows at the El Brillante Theater. Nostalgia will take the stage on Friday the 18th with ‘The musical of the 80’s and 90’s’. Saturday will be the turn of humor The Compadres, who come to Córdoba with their show ‘Somos carajotes’. And on Sunday, children’s session with ‘Coco, musical tribute’.
Children’s session at the Góngora Theater
This Sunday, October 20, the Góngora Theater hosts the play ‘Who said fear’in which the Laviebel Company addresses the fears that invade us between the ages of 6 and 9. At 12:00 p.m.
