La Cordobesa Biography's continues from the home page   In 2003 she taught Spanish Culture with Dr. Barbara Younoszai to graduate students at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. " La Cordobesa " is the three- time recipient of the coveted Minnesota Music Award and has received the Outstanding Artist of the Year Award 2003 from the hispanic newspaper La Prensa de Minnesota. Also, she has achieved awards for many years of artistic achievement with Ensemble Español Dance Theather and The Flamenco Society of St. Louis.    Añoranza a mi Cordoba new CD La Cordobesa CD cover

	Cordoba : land of profound colors City in southern Spain, capital of Cordoba Province, in Andalucia and one of Spain's most famous cities, located on the Guadalquivir River, it retains in its older sections the withewashed walls, narrow streets and colorful patios of a Moorish city. Cordoba is a trade center for olives and citrus fruits produced nearby and also has many manufacturing industries. Products include processed food, wine and beer, textiles, machinery and refined copper. A variety of handcrafted items, especially silver and leather goods are also produced, and chiefly sold to the many tourists whom visit the city. The city's most noteworthy building is the great Cathedral, which originally was constructed (8th-10th Century ) as a Moorish mosque on the site of a Roman temple and later of a Visigothic Church. Cordoba's mosque was noted as Europe's largest and most beautiful Muslim holy building before its conversion to a Christian church in 1236. Another notable structure is El Alcazar, a former Moorish palace erected on the site of Roman buildings and used in later centuries as the seat of the Inquisition; it is now largely in ruins. A bridge of 16 arches, built by the Romans and reconstructed by the Moors, connects the central city with Campo de la Verdad ( Field of Truth ), and section across the River Guadalquivir, is the seat of the University of Cordoba since 1972.