Córdoba

Saturday morning, I woke up and dragged myself out of bed to get to the 9am bus to go to Córdoba. Córdoba is a small city, that was once the capital of Spain, about 2 hours from Sevilla. When we got to Córdoba the first thing we saw was the famous Mosque. This mosque was huge and beautiful and our tour guide taught us all about the different types of architecture within the mosque. This mosque has now been converted into a church so we saw the church portion of the mosque as well.

Famous arches. The top ones are arch shape and the bottom ones are horseshoes.

How detailed!

Outside

Beautiful Ceiling

After we saw the mosque, we traveled through the Jewish quarter.  We also walked up and down the streets and saw a famous flower street. Our group kept running into this group of Italian tourists who insisted they took pictures with all the american girls. I think they were trying to be sweet and compliment us, but all of us just thought their behavior was too intrusive and we tried avoiding them. In the afternoon we went to an alcazar (a type of castle or fortress) and enjoyed the beautiful views. We also had free time where we ate sandwiches on steps and enjoyed the sunny afternoon before returning to Sevilla.

Córdoba view

Meghan and I in the Alcázar

Bell tower

Flower street

Beautiful city, disgustingly dirty river

More pretty flowers

Rub his foot for good luck and intelligence

View from a tower in the castle