Casa Árabe collaborates with the Lux Historiae Festival
Our institution is taking part in this tribute to archeologist Maribel Gutiérrez Deza, to be held in Cordoba from September 26 through October 12. Check out the full program and participate.
September 17, 2025
CóRDOBA
The festival schedule includes conferences, book presentations, workshops, guided and dramatized tours, reenactments, food tastings and puppet shows, along with other activities. All of these are educational and entertaining, having been designed for all types of audiences.
It will be taking place at different venues all over the city, including Casa Árabe’s headquarters, the Archeological Museum, the Botanical Garden, the Medina Azahara Museum, etc. Festival
Program
For further details, please visit Sexto Mario’s channels on Facebook, Instagram and X.
Maribel Gutiérrez , with a university degree in History and specializing in Archeology, completed her doctoral thesis on “Roman Temples for Imperial Worship in Cordoba,” to which she later devoted important writings, as she also did on the Salón Rico at the Medina Azahara archeological site, performing a comprehensive archeological review of how materials were replaced on the building’s façade.
In 2012, she created the outreach company Sexto Mario, to increase awareness about the city’s historical and archeological heritage among the people of Cordoba and visitors to the city in an innovative way. At Sexto Mario, she worked to design and organize workshops and tours on the main monuments and institutions in the city (including Medina Azahara, the Archeology Museum and Casa Árabe), as well as organizing, designing and developing the Kalendas Festival in Cordoba and creating a new dynamic for the Funerary World Interpretation Center located in the mausoleums of the Paseo de la Victoria, in Puerta Gallegos.
Her collaboration with Casa Árabe began in 2015, as part of the “Nights of Ramadan” program, which grew more intense in 2017 with a series of workshops in which children and youth audiences got the chance to learn about characteristic features of Caliphate era Cordoba first-hand. As of then, due to her professionalism and eagerness to inform the public, the offering of activities expanded very successfully until her unexpected and premature death.
“Álma-máter” of several dramatized performances, including the “Event in the Arrabal of Saqunda”, the arrival of Abd al-Rahman al-Dahil in Cordoba, the puppet show “Abbás Ibn Firnás, A Winged Genius,” and (in addition to many other initiatives) a video story titled “Three Girlfriends from Cordoba,” a mystery story set in eleventh-century Córdoba that tested the value of friendship.
