Cordoba - a city in southern Spain, the Guadalquivir River, 321 164 inhabitants (2005). The capital of the province of Cordoba, in the region of Andalusia. Industrial, scientific and tourism by the day. The town has a railway station of Córdoba.
Mezquita - a mosque rebuilt the cathedral, one of the finest works of Islamic architecture. Covers an area of 179x128 meters in size surrounded by a wall with a tower-belfry (the former minaret, which was derived from the Islamic countries). Built from 785 to the end of the tenth century on the foundations of the temple of Rome and the Basilica of the existing walls of the Visigoths. After the conquest of Cordoba by Christians, in the middle of the mosque prayer hall was built in the sixteenth century cathedral. When in 1526 Emperor Charles V came here he was shocked by the sight and reportedly said, "have destroyed something that was unique and built something that can be seen everywhere." The interior height of 11.50 meters, with 850 columns, arches connected podkowiastymi impressive maze.
