Today was our trip to the lost city of Medinat al-Zahra. This destroyed city was the location of the palace of the Umayyad caliphate during the early to mid 10th century. The destroyed city is only a 20 minute drive from Cordoba, at the foot of the Cordoban Mountain Range. It was the location of… Read more

Soon after arriving in Córdoba our group took a short walk to visit the Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba, one of the best and well-known examples of Islamic art and architecture in the world. The name of the monument itself is both interesting and confusing, indicating a sort-of Catholic-Islamic “hybrid” architecture that is difficult to imagine until… Read more