Hello...

On our way back from Granada to Madrid by train, we are doing an overnight stop in Cordoba May 7 for the Festival de Patios (and to break up the long train ride).

Our plan is to arrive on the 10:31 train May 7 and take an afternoon AVE or Altaria to Madrid the next day.

I saw a 2011 Patio Festival map online (though I cannot find it anymore) and it gave the hours as 10-14 and 16-22. Does anyone have the 2012 info? Hopefully it will be the same.

Inexpensive food recommendations are always welcome as well.

Thanks.
SS

from Spain official tourist board
http://www.spain.info/en/vive/fiestas/cordoba/festival_de_patios_cordobeses.html

Oh, man, that sounds GREAT!

Yup, I've got it here. Check out the Córdoba Tourism Page (in English) about the 2012 Cordoba Patio Festival from May 2-13 (as listed in the Spanish version of this page - the English version still quotes 2011 information). I see that, there, you can download the 2011 map, too. Try the above website a few weeks before your arrival and, hopefully, they'll have the updated, 2012 map/info posted.

But for 2011, here was the info:
OPEN HOURS for the Courtyard Contest:
From Sunday to Thursday: 11 to 14 and 18 to 22 h
Fridays and Saturdays: 11 to 14 and 18 to 24 h
Courtyards out of contest have special open hours and entrance is restricted in some of them.

Other webpages dedicated to the Patios of Cordoba can be found at:
http://www.patiosdecordoba.net/ & http://www.amigosdelospatioscordobeses.es/ - only in Spanish.

Have a great time! I KNOW you will!!

Saludos, MadridMan

MM and Pedmar...Thanks for the links.

The hours are likely the same as last year (that I didn't remember correctly from the map that I downloaded and lost).

SS

That looks beautiful!

It DOES look beautiful!! Madrid in May, we hope you'll return here to give us your after-visit account of the Cordoba Festival de Patios 2012! Maybe post some photos, too!? Thanks!

Saludos, MadridMan

MM...Will do.