Córdoba

Córdoba is a beautiful city and we went there on a trip with our program. The first half of the day, we got to walk around the city and just explore. In the beginning of the day we visited one of two synagogues in Spain that was from before the 15th century. The second part of the trip we visited the Mosque there, which is famous because when the city was later conquered by the Romans, they built a cathedral in the center of it. It is an interesting mixture of architecture and both parts are absolutely beautiful. It is very strange going from one portion to the other.

It is definitely a city to put on the list to visit simply for it's architecture and also for a relaxed, site-seeing day.

Bridge to Córdoba

The building that Christopher Columbus mapped his voyage!

Artisan plaza

Random fountain

Roman bath...part of it has some graffiti on it...

Roman ruin in the center of town

Ancient plaza for bull fighting. Now just filled with tapas restaurants.

•  Cathedral built on top of/in the center of a mosque (built centuries later when the Romans conquered Córdoba.

Mosque's magreb

And that's just the ceiling

wow

Many of the pictures aren't annotated because there are too many of them, but they are all from walking around, the mosque/cathedral and the synagogue. The architecture throughout the city is beautiful and throughout the entire city, there are remnants of old roman buildings or baths. It's very different than a city in the US, since the US's history can only go back a little over 200 years, whereas this city has endured several conquerors. There are still burger kings and other fast food chains throughout Córdoba, it's just interesting to see the ancient roman ruins amidst all the new.

This week is my birthday week as well as I leave for Barcelona on Friday. I will update the blog after with hopefully many things to share.

Un beso,

Steph