Hotel 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 ...

... to go to the train station.  We had no problem with the train - buying tickets, getting on, and getting to Cordoba.  We took a taxi to our hotel...and the front door looked out on the Mezquita - the big reason we came to this city.  So far ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...