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Córdoba is a cultural capital that you should not miss. City of Andalusia and capital of the province. It is situated in a depression on the banks of the Guadalquivir River and at the foot of the Sierra Morena. In size it is the third largest and most populated city in Andalusia, after Seville and Malaga. It is the second largest historical center in Europe.
It has a Mediterranean climate, with mild winters and some frosts, but its summers are very hot, with temperatures that oscillate between 40-45°C or more, and minimums with 28°C.
Córdoba was the capital of Hispania in the time of the Republic and the Roman Empire. It is considered that it became the largest city of its time, reaching one million inhabitants in the 10th century.
It was the capital of the kingdom in the Independent Emirate and in the Umayyad Caliphate of the West, at that time it reached its greatest economic and cultural expansion; where letters and sciences flourished. His library accumulated 400,000 volumes and his university competed with the famous House of Wisdom Bayt al-Hikmah in Baghdad and the Library of Alexandria. So important was literacy in Córdoba, that free schooling was given to poor children in its 27 schools, with a high level of education. While the young nobles of the Catholic kingdoms of northern Spain received their education in the court of morality.
Its prosperity made its streets full of sumptuous palaces, mosques, baths, fountains, souks, gardens, public lighting, sewerage, waterfalls, public baths and artificial lakes, all thanks to an effective system of aqueducts. His trade was so important that the wealthy women of France ordered their most elegant clothes in Cordoba.
Among its most emblematic places are; The mosque of Cordoba (current cathedral). Abderramán I began its construction on the foundations of the Basilica of San Vicente Mártir, so it was shared as a temple by Arabs and Christians. It was a place of pilgrimage for Muslims, because it was said that there was still an arm of Muhammad, so visiting it absolves the faithful of pilgrimage to Mecca.
Another important place is the palace of Medinat Al-zahra, on the outskirts of the city, it was an impressive construction that took 25 years to get up and occupied the workforce of 10,000 workers.
Other sites to visit are; the Roman Bridge, the Roman Temple, the Roman Theater, the Roman Mausoleum, the colonial forum, the adiectum forum, the amphitheater and the remains of the Emperor Maximiano Herculeo's palace at the Archaeological Site of Cercadilla.
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