{"id":7926,"date":"2021-08-30T08:03:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/cita\/how-a-city-sings-from-november-to-november\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T11:02:05","slug":"how-a-city-sings-from-november-to-november","status":"publish","type":"cita","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/cita\/how-a-city-sings-from-november-to-november\/","title":{"rendered":"How a City Sings from November to November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why should sight and not smell or taste always be used to study a city? The alfajor biscuits, the torta alaj\u00fa dessert and the mantecado de Laujar cake say as much about Granada as the tiling or the Moorish arch; and the marzipan of Toledo with its monstrous garb of plums and pearls of anise, invented by a cook of Charles V, expresses the Germanism of the emperor more sharply than his red chin. While a cathedral remains imbedded in its time, its profile crumbling, eternal without being able to take a step to the next day, <strong>a song suddenly jumps from its time to ours, alive and trembling like a frog,<\/strong> with its recent joy or melancholy, verifying identical prodigy like the seed that blooms when leaving Pharaoh&#8217;s tomb. So, let us hear the city of Granada.<\/p>\n<p>Granada has two rivers, eighty bell towers, four thousand irrigation channels, fifty fountains, a thousand and one pumps and one hundred thousand inhabitants. It has a factory for making guitars and mandolins, a store where they sell pianos and accordions and harmonicas and above all drums. It has two promenades to sing, the Sal\u00f3n and the Alhambra, and one to cry, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turgranada.es\/en\/fichas\/paseo-of-los-tristes-48649\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda de los Tristes<\/a>, a true apex of all European romanticism, and it has a legion of pyrotechnicians who build noise towers with an art similar to the Patio de los Leones (Lions\u2019 Patio), which must irritate the square water of the ponds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-7926","cita","type-cita","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cita\/7926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cita"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cita"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}