Cordoba's massive flower festival transforms city into garden of art and blooms

Cordoba is ready for the new year. The preparations are complete for Flora 2025: The International Flower FestivalIn its eighth year, is once again ready to delight and amaze visitors. All have the chance to visit the city 13 to 23 Octembre This event is a reworking on the spring festival that features the city’s famous patios filled with flowers.

In May, there are many events that will take place. Flowers and potted plants decorate the courtyards of Cordoba. This festival is unique enough to be called a festival. National Tourist Interest and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Therefore, Flora 2025 features international floral artists Who transforms these spaces by displaying their plant designs in the iconic inner patios of the city.

Flora has been a benchmark for modern botany, and Cordoba offers a cultural experience like no other. The festival’s focus this year will be on ten-day flower festivals. Nature can be a powerful force for change in building a more sustainable future Art, music, performing art, film, science and crafts, philosophy, and many other disciplines. This will enable the public to embrace nature and botany through contemporary culture and approach it from different perspectives.

Five international artists from Brazil and Spain have created five patios in Flora 2025. First, in the Mezquita’s Patio de los NaranjosPutnam Flowers, from the USA, is exhibiting this work: “Tramas Pasadas, Calma Futura” (past plots and future calm). The Provincial Authority of Cordoba with its clocktower and courtyard. El patio del Reloj del Palacio de la Merced , is showcasing the work ‘Jardín sin tiempo’ (timeless garden) by La Musa de las Flores from Mexico. Patio II at the Archaeological museumThe work titled ‘Arbor (shelter), by Paula Anta, is from Spain. The Patio de las Columnas in Viana Palace, displays the work ‘Río flotante’ (floating river) by Wagner Kreusch from Brazil and the Orive Palace’s central courtyard is showcasing the work ‘Semillas nómadas’ (nomadic seeds) by Ikefrana, winner of Cordoba’s patio competition (Patio Talento) in May, from Ciudad Real in Spain.

The festival will award two awards to the five winning artists. cash prizes The Flora 2025 awards ceremony will announce the first and second prize-winning installations (25 000 euros and 10 000 euros). The Flora 2025 Awards Ceremony will announce the first and second-placed installations on 17 October.

Visits and Activities Scheduled

Cordoba is the only place in the world where you can visit an array of flower and plant installations designed by international artists all in one day. Total of It is expected that 20,000 stems of flowers and 5,000 plants will have been used.

The public can see the creative process through guided tours that are organised during setup. In 2021, this new feature was launched to provide visitors with a unique insight in the creative process. The ten-day exhibition will also feature guided tours.

This includes the workshop for children ‘Playing With Water’ at the Palacio De Viana on 14 October, 6pm, as well as the multidisciplinary programme of nearly 100 activities, which invites people to celebrate nature in various ways, including through dance, research and music, but also art, film, crafts, and other disciplines. These include the children’s workshop ‘Playing with water’ (14 October at 6pm at the Palacio de Viana, ‘Luz de Bien sentir’, a workshop to create aromatic candles with medicinal plants (18 October at 5.15pm and 19 October at 11.15am) at Hammam Al-Ándalus, the III Velá de las Flores (19 October) with the Youth Art Market, the proclamation of the ‘Queen of the flowers’ and the Unique! Performance party at two kiosks, Quiosco Trucha, and Quiosco Joven, the workshop “Roses Made with Balloons” (13th, October, at 6pm), a “blind tasting of flower ice-creams”, the Victoria Market (17th, 18th, and 19th, at 11am, noon, and 10pm), the proclamation of ‘Queen Of The Flowers’, and the Unique! The majority of activities are free.