Our December trip to Spain: Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain

As some of you already know by my previous posts, my daughter and I spent a couple of weeks in Spain this past December; an eight-city road trip (armed with the truly remarkable Fujifilm X-T3 and a few really good lenses) that started in Madrid and then continued south through Spain’s Andalucía region and back up north to Galicia. So, after our one day in Madrid (check out the photographs > HERE), our next stop was Córdoba, a city in Andalucía, southern Spain.

Córdoba was a Roman settlement, taken over by the Visigoths (a kingdom that occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries), and then taken by Muslim armies in the eighth century. In 1236, Córdoba was returned to Christian rule when it was conquered by King Ferdinand III of Castile during the Reconquista.

We stopped at the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba), regarded as one of the most accomplished monuments of Moorish architecture (you can view the remarkable images > HERE) and spent our remaining day and a half exploring several other notable attractions in the historic centre of Córdoba, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. And by the way, as of 2018, Córdoba is the first city in the world to have four UNESCO World Heritage Sites, surpassing Rome and Paris. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).