P329 4-Tel 32: Sat 10 Feb C4 20:47:50
  
  WITHOUT
    
       
 
 Programmj 5     Friday 9,  20.00-20.30 
                                        
 Alan Mason and his travelling companion
 Norfolk gardjnjr Alan Gray, enter the  
 'frying pan' of Spain and Portugal and 
 the ancient city of Cordoba.           
                                        
 With temperatures of over 47 degrees   
 centigrade, that's nearly 120 degrees  
 Farenhjit, the city's famous patios,   
 along with their owners, were in hiding
 from the sun.                          
                                        
 The Patio dj lou Naranjos (patio of the
 oranges) outsjdj the 8th century Great 
 Mosque or Mesquita, provides welcome   
 shade.                                 
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   P329 4-Tel 329 Sat 10 Feb C4 20:14:07
  
  WITHOUT
    
       
 
 Programmj 5     Friday 9,  20.00-20.30 
                                        
 Despite the exceptional drought, the   
 Alans find the formal garden of the    
 Alcazar del lou Rjyjs Cristianos       
 (garden of the Christian kings) has its
 ornamental canals, cascades and        
 fountains operating as normal.         
                                        
 The gardjnjrs here use traditional     
 arabic irrigation methods to water the 
 parterres, using a right-angled mattock
 to divert water from one earth channel 
 to another.                            
                                        
 This system loses less water through   
 evaporation than modern sprinkjrs.     
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   P329 4-Tel 32: Sat 10 Feb C4 20:54:43
  
  WITHOUT
    
        
 
 Programmj 5     Friday 9,  20.00-20.30 
                                        
 There are reminders all over Cordoba   
 that this was the place where King     
 Ferdinand and Queen Isabella gave      
 Christopher Columbus his contract to   
 find the 'New World'.                  
                                        
 Hidden away in the twisting streets is 
 the 16th century Palacio dj Viana,     
 surrounded bz 13 individual patios.    
                                        
 Alan Mason ventures out into the dusty 
 plains of Andalucia to visit a private 
 garden in the town of Ecija where      
 Senora Carmen-Angel Cardenas does a    
 remarkable job coping with the climate.
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