Marvelous mosque. The new beginning decreed by Ferdinand III in 1236 was not the first transformation of the site at the foot of the Sierra Morena in southern Spain.

This mosque-cathedral covers 24,000 sq m, dominating the cityscape. The building almost defies description and is as complicated inside as its storied history. open image in gallery ...

Cindy Hamilton of Virginia Beach spent a month in Spain, and a stop in Córdoba yielded time in the mosque-cathedral before ...