Trip to Córdoba

The day after our castle visit, we went to Cordoba. Cordoba is a town in Southern Spain that is about two hours northeast of Sevilla. It was a very important city in Roman Spain as well as Moorish Spain. The main sight to see there is the mezquita, or mosque, converted to a cathedral. That is where our tour group headed right off the bus.


As I've done more traveling around Europe, I have become less excited to admire the architecture of the cathedrals in every city that I visit. After awhile, they all tend to meld together in my memory because generally there is very little that differentiates them. This is not the case with the Cordoba cathedral. It was absolutely breathtaking.

The red and white arches were repeated throughout almost the entire interior of the cathedral. The tedious nature of the design astounds me. The construction is credited to the Moors- the Christians simply converted the building to a cathedral when they took back the city. 

Those were a few other decorative images from the inside of the cathedral- truly breathtaking. After our guided tour was over, we were free to wander the city. Unfortunately, there isn't much to see outside of the cathedral. So Matt and I wandered around in the nice weather and simply enjoyed being outside for most of the afternoon. We did, however, go up into another castle for a view of the city, which was quite nice. 

Overall, it was a great trip! But I was happy to get back to Sevilla.