Cordoba, Spain
Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences,
Universityof Wisconsin - Green Bay
Andalusian Countryside
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Views between Granada and Cordoba |
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City Walls
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Minaret and Courtyard
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Left: Entrance to the courtyard. |
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Walls of the Mosque
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Inside the Great Mosque
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This is one of those things you've seen in books all your life and
then...there it is. Continuing its long tradition of benighted ignorance, the Catholic Church in Spain refuses to allow Muslims to pray here. |
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The Cathedral
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Charles V ordered the construction of a cathedral within the mosque,
a move that may have saved it from destruction by the Inquisition. Supposedly,
he was unimpressed with the result, saying "You have taken something
extraordinary and turned it into something ordinary." I think it looks pretty nice, and the mosque is so vast that the cathedral is invisible from much of it. |
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Left and below: Where the cathedral ends and the mosque begins. |
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Street scene near the mosque |
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Left and below: Old mill and reconstructed water wheel on the riverbank. |
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The Jewish Quarter
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Street Scenes in Cordoba
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Below: distant scenes of Cordoba. Below right: the mosque and cathedral. |
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Left: old watch tower Below: between Cordoba and Ubeda. |
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Created 22 June 2007, Last Update 03 June 2020