Water Wheel
This is one of the Mozarab water wheels just outside of Cordoba that functioned as an aquaduct as well as doing some fairly complex machining for making things with its drive train. As you can see by the varied arches, it was built on top of the Roman one before it.
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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in... [read more]
Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in... [read more] Blog: The Cordoban jaunt
Date: September 17th 2005
Friday, September 16, 2005 After an early rise, the history of Spanish Art class, along with a bunch of students who just wanted to go, met at the base of the Torre del Oro. We loaded up into a much nicer charter bus than the one I rode from Cuetzalan, Mexico to Puebla, Mexico the summer before last (nobody had to stand up or hold their chickens under their arms), and headed for Córdoba, the Wes ... read more
Date: September 17th 2005
Friday, September 16, 2005 After an early rise, the history of Spanish Art class, along with a bunch of students who just wanted to go, met at the base of the Torre del Oro. We loaded up into a much nicer charter bus than the one I rode from Cuetzalan, Mexico to Puebla, Mexico the summer before last (nobody had to stand up or hold their chickens under their arms), and headed for Córdoba, the Wes ... read more
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A semester in Seville to study Spanish, with a few side trips to Italy, France, Morocco and wherever else the wind blows. Enjoy the picture gallery and let me know which ones you like. ... full info
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