The Cordoba Mosque- the main attraction in the city
The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba is the most important monument of the entire Islamic West and one of the most amazing in the world. In his history summarizes the complete evolution of the Umayyad style in Spain and the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque Christian construction. The Mosque of Cordoba was built during the 9th and 10th centuries and consecrated as the cathedral in 1236. A Jewel of Hispano-Islamic art, with its 850 columns, double arches and Byzantine mosaics, is a legacy of the Ummayad Caliphate in Spain. In the center of its vista of columns rises a 16th-century cathedral. The Great […]