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Unlike its Andalucían sister city Granada, Cordoba doesn’t have the fabulous Alhambra but it more than makes do with Mezquita, a unique 8th century mosque that was built over and around and re-converted to a Christian edifice when Ferdinand III of Castile recaptured Cordoba in 1236, until then one of the world’s leading Islamic cities. Quite a bit of the original mosque still survives, including hundreds of striking terra cotta and white arches.
We stayed in what was once the Jewish quarter of Cordoba, a maze of narrow twisting alleyways that open out every so often into a cafe lined square, perhaps watched over by an old church or two. Our own Cordoba digs, Hospederia Luis D Gongora, was just off Plaza de La Trinidad where we sat down more than once to take in the sunshine and a glass of the smooth Vina Herminia 2008 Crianza.
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