Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces and public buildings were built to rival the splendours of ...

Córdoba, the capital of the Córdoba province in Andalusia, is one of Spain’s most fascinating destinations. Occupied by the Romans in the 2nd century B.C.E., the city maintains a deep connection to ...

The Alcazar of the Caliphs, a fortress and a palace, stood by the bank of the river Guadalquivir next to the Great Mosque containing a forest of arches. The two structures towered like goliaths over ...

For most tourists to Spain, a visit to Cordoba isn’t a must. Barcelona and Seville have been luring visitors for decades, keeping Cordoba, a city in the south with a population of around 330,000, ...

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Cordoba was one of the greatest cities of the medieval world, rivalling Constantinople in the east with its palaces and mosques – the grandest of which, the Mezquita, is still one of the wonders of ...

“An ornament of the world” – that is how the 10th-century writer Roswitha of Gandersheim described this Andalucian city, when it was the biggest conurbation in Europe. Under Islamic rule, Cordoba was ...