Constructed early in the 1st century B.C. Cordoba’s Roman bridge still spans the Guadalquivir River.
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Cordoba Highlights: A Mosque-Cathedral and a Microbrewery
To the victor go the spoils…and the right to re-decorate.
In the site where Cordoba’s Mezquita now stands there was once a Roman temple, then a Visigothic cathedral and then a mosque. Rather than re-do the entire edifice in the 13th century when Christian crusaders took over the town, they left the majority of the mosque intact but made a significant alteration. They constructed a Catholic church in its center.