Cordoba, Spain

On our last day in Spain, we took the train 45 minutes from Seville to Cordoba.  The main site in Cordoba is the La Mezquita.  The building was begun around the year 600 as a Christian Church.  In 784, with the invasion of the Moors into southern Spain, the church was reworked into a Mosque.  In 1236, the mosque was converted into a Catholic church.  The original structure of the Mosque was not altered.  They just built the church directly in the middle.  It is an amazing site.

The original Minaret turned into Bell Tower.

More fountains to play in....

Inside the Mosque...

Peering into the church from the Mosque...

The grand Cathedral.....

Spying the mosque outside of the Cathedral....

 

These pictures don't do it justice.  It was HUGE.  Endless rows of columns, and this massive domed Cathedral smack dab in the middle of it. 

Other things we saw in Cordoba.....

Roman Bridge

It was a really beautiful city, and the Meziquita was well worth the visit!