For a time the largest and most cultured city in Europe, Córdoba is the jewel of the Al Ándalus journey. Its Mezquita-Catedral is unlike anywhere else on earth: row upon row of red-and-white double arches — over 850 columns — enclosing a Christian cathedral raised, astonishingly, within the mosque.
Beyond the mosque
Around it winds the Judería, the old Jewish quarter, with the flower-filled patios for which Córdoba is famous, the synagogue, and the Roman bridge over the Guadalquivir beneath the Calahorra tower. On the Al Ándalus the visit is guided and unhurried.
The Mezquita speaks a design language worth learning before you visit — our Moorish architecture primer — and Córdoba feeds you afterwards via the culinary map.
