the Travel Enthusiast
- 19 MarAdam in Amazing Places | NO COMMENTS
The Happy Periods of Cordoba
A forest of columns reminds us of the glorious past of Cordoba.
A half a century after the occupation of Andalusia by the Moors, an educated young man entered in front of a cavalry in Cordoba in the year of 756. He was Abd-er-Rahman I, the son of the last Calif Omeyyad of Damasc with Berber origins. He began the ascension of one the worlds most liberal and prosperous metropolises in the old world.