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Historic Centre of Cordoba

Spain
Date of Inscription: 1984
Extension: 1994
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
Province of Cordoba, Autonomous Community of Andalusia
N37 52 45.1 W4 46 47.0
Ref: 313bis

Brief Description

Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces and public buildings were built to rival the splendours of Constantinople, Damascus and Baghdad. In the 13th century, under Ferdinand III, the Saint, Cordoba's Great Mosque was turned into a cathedral and new defensive structures, particularly the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos and the Torre Fortaleza de la Calahorra, were erected.

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  • Extension of the "Mosque of Cordoba".

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