Post by Grubb
Midway on our second walking tour of Córdoba our guide led us up steps and stopped here.
What, our guide asked us, was the purpose of this steep sloping concrete park beneath a tall obelisk? I was about to say, “Skate park,” but noticed the angled array of low pipe like barriers. And that tall column, was that some weird security tower?
It turns out that tower represents a lighthouse, and the curvy concrete a large wave. So, ah, okay, but Córdoba is nowhere near an ocean. It was like finding a nautical monument in Sacramento. Apparently this eighty-meter-tall partial helix with a ninety degree twist was built in 2011 as a tribute to the Argentina Bicentennial. Córdoba, a big hangout for Jesuits coming from Spain in the eighteenth century, set this rolling plaza up to acknowledge the journey. (Underneath the wave is a large historical archive.) The whole layout is as if at Tiguex Park there were a large man o war monument in honor of the Duke.