Conquistador Cordoba

... , then the inside area of what was originally a mosque is now an enormous cathedral.  When King Ferdinand conquered Cordoba for the Christians, he reclaimed the Mezquita, which had originally been an early Christian church called the Iglesia de ...

... .  The fact that the mosque wasn't knocked down is a source of pride and it has become a symbol for the tolerance that Cordoba has and the connection of Muslim and Christian.  So...back to the Mezquita...When you walk in you see row after row of ...

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Now about halfway through the journey, we are traveling the Cordoba/Seville/Grenada triangle. Here in Cordoba, we are staying at the Hotel Eurostars Conquistador for a night before traveling to ...

... that would allow them to bring the gold and silver extracted in the Viceroyalty of Peru to the port of Buenos Aires. The first conquistador to venture into the area was Diego de Almagro in 1536. In 1582 Salta was founded by Hernando de Lerma. We walk to ...

... are kept, 18,000 documents.  You can read letters from  Columbus but my interest was Cortez.  He was the Conquistador who led a small military force from Cuba, to Veracruz (east coast of Mexico) and inland to the incredible & fantastic ...