Michele and seeing some of the main sites of Andalucia. My aunt flew into
Sevilla where we stayed for 4 days then we took a train to Cordoba.
Cordoba is a little more to the North and East. For three days we saw the
sites of this city. After Cordoba came Granada. I think we should have
stayed one less night in Cordoba and one more in Granada. In Granada we
saw the mighty Alhambra(see separate posting) and the Cathedral there.
Then we moved on to Malaga and to the coast for the first time in five
weeks. Here we saw the Picasso museum (see separate posting.
In Cordoba we saw interesting sights including a Roman bridge and we went
to a famous tortilla espanola restaurant where I met the owner. The most
famous sight in Cordoba is the Mezquita, a mosque and cathedral started
in the 7th century. The size of this mosque is amazing, and also the
quality is remarkable. If you wanted to walk the perimeter the walk would
be five minutes at a moderate pace. This amazing Muslim site of prayer
was built in ten months.
The most immpressive part was the 50 red and white columns each 10 ft
away from each other and 15 ft tall. All of the 15 ft pillars were reused
as to consume less time. Some are Visigothic but mostly the columns were
Roman.
The orange garden was splendid and remined me of the gardens in the
Alcazar in Sevilla. There were also cyprus trees and one olive tree to
symbolise the mosque. Originally the gardens were just olive trees but
the Christians replanted it.
When Cordoba was taken by the Christians, a hole for the Catedral was
taken out of the Mosque and the city church was errected in the middle of
the Muslim pillars. This is one the biggest, and prettiest mosques in
Spain.
There are TWO OTHER POSTINGS with pictures on my blog.
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