Cordoba

Cordoba - a city in the South American republic Argentina, in a charming valley of the river Primero. Once this city was capital Mauritian халифата, and now it is the silent centre of a province. At Омейядах Cordoba has been declared митрополией all Islamic world.

The culture which has gone through at moors the period of blossoming, after реконкисты has fallen into decay. The witness of former glory and greatness of Cordoba is well-known кордовская a mosque. The mosque is known not so much the more than 1000-year-old history, how many multi-coloured marble columns though many of them and have been destroyed. Columns support the double arches painted with two colours, and it makes bewitching, with what not comparable impression.

Today it is small provincial small town; located among fertile fields and gardens, it is one of the most picturesque corners of Spain. The most pleasant employment for the tourist coming to Cordoba - to wander on charming small streets of the old quarters located round a mosque, to walk on the bridge constructed by Arabs from the rests of the Roman bridge. All sights of a city are concentrated near to a mosque and in the Jewish quarter.