Splendor of Magical Reality

"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude)

The first step into the courtyard hits with the smell of the orange trees. From that exact moment on one will be able not to associate the orange smell with Mezquita, Cathedral Mosque of Cordoba, regardless of his/her destination on earth. Within the confines of the massive outer walls nestles the fragile serenity suspended in time as a result of the whimsical game between orange trees and the water. It's hard to resist but still one is able to observe the mundane creatures in his/her surrounding...until that first step inside. Interior is divine, interior is intricate, interior is clean, interior is in harmony. Although four mosque enlargements and church accomodated inside, it looks as if 1229 years had not passed, all look in the same place at the same time. Modern man seems to be a time-traveller beacuse the building overshadows them. You don't belong there, because there are others...

Maybe beyond the boundaries of this world, those who have passed loved the value of this divine association that we couldn't manage on earth. So loved that they all became like Melquiades...They were really had been through dead, but it feels as if they had returned because they could not bear solitude....(Adopted from Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude)