Mirador de Montoro
Check rates and availability for this hotel
Find the best prices for Mirador de Montoro from our 7 partners. Show all partners
Travel Blogs from Montoro
No kebabs to be had
... if the spirit really moved you. Regardless, for a total cost of less than €6, it's quite a steal. The museum is extremely well done and, considering how much tourist attractions normally cost, is alone worth three or four times the measly €1.50 admission. The site was the new capital of the Umayyad Caliphate (though, like most things in history, the claim of Caliphood is contentious), moved very slightly from Córdoba, commissioned by Caliph Abd al-Rahman III in ...
Mezquitas, Cathedrals, and Synagogues oh my!
Ok so I've left you hanging for two weeks now and a lot has gone on, so I'm splitting these events up into two blog posts and have altered the date on this one. Sorry it's taken me so long, but things have gotten busy and jam packed fast.
On Saturday Sidra, Jayme, Marcela, Kat, Kim, and I went to Cordoba. We ended up running into another group from UPO and decided to go around together. First we went to Alcazar de los Reyes Catolicos (The Palace of ...
Primer día en la ciudad califal
... que a la postre se convertiría en el gran descubrimiento de este viaje, con sus fabulosos patios, mosaicos romanos y tapices flamencos. La verdad, no me hubiera importado nada quedarme en alguna de las habitaciones para invitados.
Tras el frío, el sol salió por fin, y qué gusto que coincidiera con la visita que hicimos a los reales alcázares, ya que de otra forma se hubiera deslucido bastante.
Cruzar el puente romano sobre un ...
Madinat Alzahara
so today i guess is eid <muslim holiday< so celebrating
first visited the arab baths which are an excavation like a turkish hammam with stars in the roof... then took the half hour coach to madinat alzahara which is outside the city in the country
this was built in the 10th century as the new administrative capital of the kingdom and had housed the king, prime minister and seat of government... it only lasted 70 ...
Lebendiges cordoba
... eine ferien-residenz. und da es damals noch keine grösseren und noch grösseren off-roaders gab, mit welchen man seine potenz beweisen konnte, baute halt jeder sein schlösschen oder sonstwas. die mezquita sei die grösste in ganz europa und 3.grösste weltweit (nach dem taj mahal und ev. hagia sofia? würde ich schätzen jedenfalls). total beindruckend im ...