The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba & Roman Bridge - UNESCO World Heritage - Córdoba Spain 2024

Córdoba or sometimes Cordova is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba.

The first traces of human presence in the area are remains of a Neanderthal dating to c. 42,000 to 35,000 BC. Pre-urban settlements around the mouth of the Guadalquivir are known to have existed from the 8th century BC. The population gradually learned copper and silver metallurgy. The first historical mention of a settlement dates to the Carthaginian expansion across the Guadalquivir.

Córdoba was conquered by the Romans in 206 BC. In 169 BC, Roman consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus, who had governed both Hispania Ulterior and Hispania Citerior, founded a newer settlement alongside the pre-existing one. The date is contested; it could have been founded in 152 BC.

The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, officially known by its ecclesiastical name of Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption (Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), is the cathedral of the Diocese of Córdoba dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and located in the Spanish region of Andalusia. Due to its status as a former mosque, it is also known as the Mezquita (Spanish for 'mosque') and as the Great Mosque of Córdoba.

According to traditional accounts a Visigothic church, the Catholic Christian Basilica of Vincent of Saragossa, originally stood on the site of the current Mosque-Cathedral. The Great Mosque was constructed in 785 on the orders of Abd al-Rahman I, founder of the Islamic Emirate of Córdoba. The mosque was converted to a cathedral in 1236 when Córdoba was captured by the Christian forces of Castile during the Reconquista.

The mosque structure is an important monument in the history of Islamic architecture and was highly influential on the subsequent "Moorish" architecture of the western Mediterranean regions of the Muslim world. It is also one of Spain's major historic monuments and tourist attractions, as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984.

The Roman bridge, cathedral and the old town are all amazing to see and worth a visit.

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