Tourism in Cordoba

Tourism in Cordoba

General Information 

Cordoba is well known. They are the beating heart of Andalusia with wisdom, knowledge and culture, their income when you open the Muslims of Andalusia and developed and Amrha and increased their privacy. Cordoba was founded in the imperial period Romania in the second century AD, and still some of the effects of that period until the present day, such as water channel Romania. 

Cordoba is located south of Spain, the capital of the brigade in Cordoba region of Andalusia autonomous. The population of Cordoba today about 310,000 people. In 711 occupied by Muslims, and became the period of Islamic rule in Andalusia, the largest city in Europe and turned into a center for the arts and Islamic studies, and to a well-known holy places for Muslims. 

Cordoba was the capital of Andalusia between the years 750 and even 929, then turned to the Andalusian capital of the caliphate. Cordoba has been described during the tenth century as the city of big and rich and he was more than 1,000 mosques and 600 bath. There are estimated to be of Cordoba was in the period between 935 and 1013 in the largest cities in the world as a whole. The period was characterized by Islamic rule in Cordoba prosperity and prosperity for all religions that inhabited, including Judaism. At Cordoba in 1236 returned to the control of European Christians during the Reconquista (the fall of Andalusia), led by Fernando III. 

With time chisels Cordoba for its high and turned into a modest city, where the archaeological area where today's so small that you can roam during the hours or one day only. It features a climate that is hot in the summer, but it is nice at night. Cordoba is also linked to several Spanish cities across the highway network, such as Madrid, Seville and the cities of western Spain. There is also a small airport in Cordoba, as well as train network include Spanish fast trains, so far from Madrid Cordoba today express train nearly two hours only. 

Of prominent monuments in Cordoba: 

- Gama- Mosque Mezquita de Cordob: built this mosque famous across many stages, and has been extended more than once, where a church was built on the old Abdul Rahman bought home because it is located on the banks of the Guadalquivir River. In a certain period of this mosque was the largest mosque in the world. Where he Mansour bin Abi Amer largest expansion of the mosque has doubled its original size. After the fall of Andalusia turning the Grand Mosque to the Cathedral of La Catedral. , One of the centers of the World Heritage by UNESCO. 

- Arab fences, Las Murallas Arabes: Cordoba ancient walls that still exist in some of them and maintain the original character and architecture. 

- Arab Baths, Banos Arabes: pools still keeps the old architectural style, where there are two bathrooms in Cordoba: Great, and the second is a small public baths, all of which are located near the mosque. 

- Madinat al-Zahra, Medina Azahra: is the seat of the caliphate and is located outside the Andalusian Cordoba, which is a small town where an integrated palace and gardens, and so on. The city of Cordoba for Zahra current eight kilometers, have been subjected to the palace demolished large parts of it in the era of Taifa, as the great neglect. 

- Kantara Romania, Alcantara: Vintage Roman arch is up Barabd Cordoba, an area that was inhabited by the people of Cordoba pan. 

- Kala Museum Aura, Torre Calahorra: a tower is located at the West of the river toward the second Rabd. Today is a museum of the history of Cordoba, passing through the Andalusian period. 

- Arab and Jewish neighborhood, JUDERIA: old neighborhoods adjacent to the mosque, the mosque and several houses where the old Andalusian, including Jewish homes and a synagogue as well. 

The archaeological museum, Museo Arquelogico: Includes several pieces of Legado.