Cordoba - Spain
Tourist Information and accommodation in Cordoba
B&B, Hotels and Hostels in Cordoba, Andalucía, Spain
Photo by Victor Ovies
Cordoba Photo Gallery: Medina Azahara, The Mosque, The Patios (Quart-yards) Festival in May.
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Cordoba offers a wide range of budget accommodation as well as good value middle range hotels. Of course you will also find plenty of charming top end, luxurious, hip hotels in magnificent modern or historical buildings. |
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Today a moderately sized modern city, the old town
contains many impressive architectural reminders of when Córdoba was the
thriving capital of the Caliphate of Cordoba that governed almost all of the
Iberian peninsula. It has been estimated that Cordoba was the largest city in
the world in the tenth century. Córdoba was the birthplace of three famous philosophers: the Roman stoic Seneca, the Muslim Averroes, and the Jewish Maimonides. Córdoba was also the birthplace of the Roman poet, Lucan and (more recently) of several flamenco artists including Paco Peña, Vicente Amigo, and Joaquín Cortés.
Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces and public buildings were built to rival the splendours of Constantinople, Damascus and Baghdad. In the 13th century, under Ferdinand III, the Saint, Cordoba's Great Mosque was turned into a cathedral and new defensive structures, particularly the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos and the Torre Fortaleza de la Calahorra, were erected.
The historic centre of Cordoba was inscribed on
the World Heritage List in 1984
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