Top 4 in Top 10 tourist attractions in Spain.
Once the main mosque of the Islamic West and still known as Mezquita, Cordoba's mosque is one of the largest in the world and the finest achievement of Moorish architecture in Spain. Dental. Despite subsequent changes that cut out its center to build a Catholic church at its centre, the Grand Mosque ranks alongside the Alhambra in Granada as one of the two finest examples. of Islamic art and architecture in Western Europe.
Building materials from Roman and Visigothic buildings were used in its construction, beginning in 785, and by 1000 it had grown to its present size, the prayer hall with no less than ten nine aisles. No matter where you stand or which direction you look, its columns and round Moorish arches line up in symmetrical patterns.
The streets are narrow and winding; small square; and low whitewashed houses with beautiful verandas visible from the street fill the quaint Juderia surrounding the mosque, a Moorish atmosphere inherited from its past.