Tuesday 8th May 2018....Day 35!!!

beautiful sunny day and we left the apartment at 9.30 am and walked maybe one hundred 💯 yards to the bus stop and got the bus to the main bus still really easygoing!!

There was a bus leaving for Cordoba at 10.30am the the cost was 14 Euros 💶 each and almost three hours later we were at the bus station in the old city of Cordoba.

Our Airbnb host had given us directions to get the bus to his apartment and it was all good....

The apartment is again really lovely, all the places we have stayed have been great.

We are only a short walk to Centro and after settling in we walked there down by the river very lovely....

It looks like another old city filled with history and historical buildings...

And then the very best we went into this magnificent building..

The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba is the most important monument of all the Western Islamic world, and one of the most amazing in the world. The evolution of the “Omeya” style in Spain is resumed in the history of the Mosque of Cordoba, as well as other styles such as the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque of the Christian architecture.

It seems as if the place that the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba occupies nowadays was dedicated, from ancient times, to the cult of different divinities. In this same place, and during the Visigoth occupation, another building was constructed, the “San Vicente” Basilic. On top of this basilic and after paying half of the site, the primitive Mosque was constructed. This basilic, of rectangular shape, was shared for a period of time between Moslems and Christians. After the Muslim enlargement, the Basilic became property of Abderraman I, who destroyed it to construct the first “Mosque Alhama” or main Mosque of the city. Nowadays, some of the constructive elements of the Visigoth building are integrated in the first part of Abderraman I.

The Great Mosque has two different areas: the courtyard or “arcade sahn“, where the “alminar” (minaret) is constructed (beneath the Renaissance tower) by Abd al-Rahman III, and the “haram” or praying hall. The interior space consists of a forest of columns and red and white arches giving a strong chromatic effect. The site is divided into 5 different areas, corresponding each one of them to the different expansions that have occurred on it.

I truly have not been in a place like this hard to make the photos do justice it was fantastic and the best church I have seen.

We walked some more around the old town it has a lovely feel to it and I really like it.

We are staying two nights so have a full day to explore tomorrow.

Yashi Kochi!!