Cordoba - Beautiful, Friendly, Festive, Small - and Hugely Historic
Cordoba is an incredibly beautiful city, that The scale of time is different here. For example, when our country was founded in 1776, the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba had been a Roman Catholic church for three hundred years. But that Catholic church built within a mosque that had been operating for seven hundred years ... which had been built partly with parts scavenged from an early Visogothic church ... which was most likely built on something the Romans had there. The layers of history are dramatic, and somehow quite visible. I visited a museum nearby, dedicated to the memory of the Sephardim, the story of their persecution in Spain, and the diaspora that followed. Monday, I visited the Museo Vivo al Andalus, which offers an overview of the practices and beliefs that existed in the time between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the early 700s to the completion of the Christian 'reconquista' in 1492. This latter date relates to the Shep...