Good bye to Madrid and off to Andalusia, Cordoba. It's sad that for our short 2 days in Madrid, we were not given any time to shop at this Capital! Also, we failed to tour Spain's famous football stadiums and watch any bull fights =( Definitely something I'll do if I return in the future. Then and again, most cities look the same and it's always more interesting visiting the smaller heritage towns.
dress: Topshop, shoes: Aldo, bag: Mulberry
Another long day of traveling on the coach but stopping by a little town called Puerto Lapice. Really nothing special about this town besides it being a rest stop for tourist heading towards Cordoba...
Another UNESCO World Heritage Site - Cordoba.
Something super interesting about this place is that it's a Cathedral that was built inside a Mosque, which was built over a Roman Temple once upon a time... Jewish, Arabs, and Christians managed to cohabit peacefully and help construct this magnificent structure (Mosque/Cathedral/Temple).
The most distinctive feature of the Cordoba is the arcs used in the mosque and was built in a shocking 10 months, as compared to regular structures of that era which took few hundred years to complete.
The holiest place in the mosque where the Coran was read
Right in the middle of the mosque, a Cathedral was erected.
And under the floors of the mosque, ruins of a Roman Temple was found
How much more complicated can this religious house get? hahahaha. No wonder it makes the UNESCO list =)
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