{"id":7464,"date":"2024-04-12T14:09:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grubbella.com\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T20:09:15","slug":"what-the-sam-hill-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grubbella.com\/?p=7464","title":{"rendered":"What the Sam Hill is this?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Midway on our second walking tour of C\u00f3rdoba our guide led us up steps and stopped here.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The wave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What, our guide asked us, was the purpose of this steep sloping concrete park beneath a tall obelisk? I was about to say, \u201cSkate park,\u201d but noticed the angled array of low pipe like barriers. And that tall column, was that some weird security tower?<\/p>\n\n\n

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The lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It turns out that tower represents a lighthouse, and the curvy concrete a large wave. So, ah, okay, but C\u00f3rdoba 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. C\u00f3rdoba, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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