Book in Bodegas Campos
restaurant and lounges
camara of el santo
This room takes its name from the oil painting of the Nazarene by José María García Benavides, chronicler of Posadas and great-uncle of the Campos.
This attic room houses a small collection of cheerful multicolored posters from Cordoba fairs and pilgrimages from the 1950s and 1960s. All are the work of the painter Ricardo Anaya.
The most notable is the one from the 1967 fair, which dominates the room: a beautiful face of a Cordoba woman, with a carnation in her mouth, Brigitte Bardot-style, as an icon of women’s liberation at that time, a work by the Sevillian Álvarez Gámez.
The most interesting poster in the room, due to its age, is the one announcing the May Fair of 1934, in the midst of the Second Republic. It was signed by Joaquín and Rafael Díaz-Jara, brothers from Aracena, Huelva. It features an elegant lady dressed in a tight Manila shawl with large embroidered flowers and vermillion fringes, unfurling a fan with her slender figure, in an art deco style.
A glass-fronted cupboard displays books and souvenirs on its shelves, lined with dried leaves. This is where the selective library on flamenco singing and its figures, begun in the Flamenco Room, continues.
Alternating with the books, the cupboard displays stainless steel jugs used to serve wine, a venencia (a type of wine), a glazed ceramic rooster, castanets, and a little doll dressed as a gypsy, seemingly escaped from a souvenir shop.
