After a beautiful sunny and hot day yesterday this morning was cooler grey skies and at times a dusting of rain...not so bad really as today was going to be our walking around day getting lost in the many mazes of tiny street but first we started here..

The Passion and Spirit of Andalusian Horse

The Royal Stables in Cordoba were founded in the year 1570 by a royal decree of Felipe II, who was a great lover of horses. He launched this project to create the Andalusian Horse (Pure Spanish Thoroughbred), one of the greatest breeds of horse ever to exist, for his own use and for use all over the world.

What was at first simply a royal wish ended up being one of the greatest and best-loved of Felipe II's projects. The Spanish thoroughbred was a very popular riding horse and soon became a striking symbol of the Spanish empire.

Nowadays, the horses return to their origins, the city of Cordoba which was their birthplace. A real delight for all the family, in the stunning setting of the monumental Royal Stablesin Cordoba.

We paid the five Euros which gave us access to the stables and the training grounds and it was fun to see these magnificent animals up close..

Afterwards we wandered through the old Jewish section town with it’s many tiny streets...

The view from the other side of the bridge....

And finally some other lovely sights....

We arrived back at 5 pm and had a snack a rest and went back down to Centro to see the sights at night.0

Tomorrow we leave here have a car rented and we plan to take the Don Quixote route to out next stop Toledo!!!

Yashi Kochi!!!