The Old School House Bed and Breakfast Córdoba
Calle Fernandez de Santiago 6 Córdoba, Andalusia, 14730, Spain and Canary Islands
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An unexpected vacation to Cordoba
... The city is gorgeous, and definitely has no short supply of museums and history to explore. You could probably spend months digging through the history of Cordoba. However in that history, there definitely is this overlying sadness to it all. It's obvious that this city really was an epicenter for the Inquisiton. The periods of eradication of groups like the Jews and Muslims still has an obvious mark on the city. Where there could be a fusion of ...
Moorish Spain - Seville and Cordoba
... the experience of having our luggage sent through the X-ray machine before entering the platform, whereas passengers were not – so we could not relax but remained particularly on the look-out for stiff-legged individuals who might have an AK47 stuffed down their trousers. Arriving in Cordoba we checked into a rather plush hotel beside a major highway junction in what looked like a modern city, just around the corner from the station, where the railway runs ...
Cordwainers and mezuzot
... but fortunately the Spanish king of the time showed up, realized that he had made a mistake in agreeing to the cathedral being built within the mosque and stopped any further destruction. Even during the Inquisition, the building was left intact and as a consequence we are left with today the bizarre sight of a cathedral slap bang in the middle of a mosque! Indeed, so intact is the mosque that Muslim visitors have been known to show up and lay ...
Una mas!
... Then surrounded me. They didn't seem to care that I was sitting there. So the teacher starts talking about the courtyard in Spanish... And I listened like a good student. I almost asked her why there is only one olive tree. Time to head back to the hotel, need to repack. My train leaves at 11:20am ... But I want to read in the courtyard before I go. So packing tonight saves time. Then a walk down to the bridge, then dinner ... ...
Cordoba!
... everywhere to mark their territory. Interestingly and sadly, when the Christains overtook Arab regimes they either destroyed the mosques or put cathedrals inside the mosque...woah! This is an example of a beautiful mosque still intact, with a legitamate cathedral inside of it! Can you believe that!? I was blown away by the history of this building, all of the geometry and math used at such an early time to create perfect architeture, and use of different materials. ...

