“Give me the glass of anise as if it were yours.” This is how the lead singer of the group Friends of San Lorenzo orders a snack before doing a Christmas medley with the tanguelo rumba. A group of people clapping their hands in the yard … From San Juan de Palomares, 8 years old, about the same number as they record with their mobile phones. The lively scene in this small place, especially the decorative one, creates the necessary atmosphere for the start of the “Christmas in the Patios” programme, which on December 5, 6 and 7 shows its first two routes, one through the area of Piedra Ecrypta and San Agustín, the other through the downtown area, the Jewish Quarter and the Santiago Quarter.
On the other hand, morning rain and hail affected visitors and backyards The Written Stone and Saint AugustineThey were calmer than on previous dates. On the other hand, the good work of the Friends of San Lorenzo was drawing the audience to the rhythm of popular Christmas carols, some from Cordoba, and Christmas carols from Jerez. Its president, Encarnacion Muñoz, explained that the club was founded 21 years ago. There are 17 in this chorus, with two guitars, a cajon and a tambourine. “Today we perform in all the courtyards of this neighborhood, and on the 27th in the Julio Romero de Torres area,” he announces so that no one will miss them. In that yard San Juan de Palomares Gabriel Castillo resides.
Winter flowers
For the second year he places his nativity scene in the window, where before it was in the local well. He adds: “The desert of July and August burned everything, and we had to replant it. You have to put everything new at this time so that it coagulates in May.” Christmas decorations and poinsettias liven up the place filled with decorative elements with their colors.
In San Juan de Palomares, 13, headquarters “Cloves and Gitanellas”, Caretaker Angel Castillo points out that they dared to create a small creation of red poinsettias with other less common pink plants: “There are also ferns and small gypsy plants, which we just planted.” In the courtyard of 13 Zarco Street, a surprise birth of unusual large figures: “This puzzle is about the cult of the Three Wise Men, it is Seville Baroque, with images inspired by figures of Holy Week,” says its owner, Santiago Hernández.
Poinsettias, cyclamen, and azaleas They complete this whole secluded enclosure. “The gypsies have stopped now, the pomegranate tree is losing its leaves, and it is time to prune for the ‘resaviar’, that is, to give new juice to the climbers.” As we can see, in the courtyards, it is now the coming month of May and the cold is overcoming the winter flowers. Juana Romero, in Zarco’s courtyard, 15 people, chooses wonderful green spaces all year round, so her courtyard looks very good in winter without any major additions, except for the indispensable pasquero: “It has to be green all year round, that’s why we have ferns, Adam’s ribs or pilstra.”
he Montero Courtyard, 27 It opened its doors again last May in a renovated property, where the old apartment house was renovated. And so he returned to competition after that long gap. This is her first Christmas, and owner Rosa Maria Merina took outside the nativity scene she usually sets up in the home’s living room. “We benefit from the fact that something remains Bougainvillea next to poinsettia To give some red tones.
Music, flowers and the slow movement of visitors confirm that Christmas is celebrated here too, among the flower pots and white-painted walls. These courtyards present a different facet of winter and already contain a harbinger of the coming May.