Mezquita of Cordoba
Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
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One of the world’s greatest buildings: a thousand-year-old love letter from the glory days of Moorish al-Andalus.
Adult price: £8
Best for ages 13+
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Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
|One of the world’s greatest buildings: a thousand-year-old love letter from the glory days of Moorish al-Andalus.
Adult price: £8
Best for ages 13+
Andalusia, Spain
|Madrid may have the biggest stars, but Andalusia was its birthplace, and the tradition of Flamenco pulses through Andalusia’s blood. Book in for a passionate night of guitars, singing, stamping steps and colourful, swirling dresses.
Adult price: £15
Best for ages 5+
Duration: 90 minutes
When: Daily
Frequency: daily
Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
Very professional Flamenco club founded back in the 1990s near La Mezquita with only 50 seats, but plenty of passion; several of its seven talented artists have won national prizes for their guitar-playing and dancing.
Adult price: £20
Best for ages 6+
Duration: 1 hour
When: Daily
Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
Next to La Mezquita, a small hammam in a traditional Andalusian brick, tiles and garden setting. The massages are excellent including the hot stone bed option; it’s so relaxing your two-hour slot will seem to fly by. Book online here.
Adult price: £29
Min age 18
Best for ages 18+
Duration: 1-3 hours
Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
Andalusia’s first food court occupies a 19th-century forged iron building, where 20 stalls sell delicacies from around the world, along with local goodies (the seafood is exceptional); tables in the gardens wait for tasting them in-situ.
Best for ages 18+
Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
The partially excavated and reconstructed halls, mosque, gate, porticoes and gardens of a 112-hectare mysterious palace city. It was built in the 10th century by Abd-ar-Rahman III, the first Caliph of Cordoba; now a World Heritage Site.
Adult price: £17
Best for ages 18+
Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
Also known as the Mercado de la Artesania, this patio house in Calle Judio hosted the first handicraft shops in Spain. Come here to peruse the city’s traditional arts – leather, ceramics and silver – and watch silversmiths make delicate filigree.
Best for ages 18+
Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
For two weeks in May, home-owners in Cordoba’s old neighbourhoods show off their gorgeous white-washed courtyards to the public, filled with flowers in a mind-bobbling explosion of colour and fragrance.
Duration: 2 weeks
When: May