For a time the largest city in the world, Córdoba guards one of the great buildings of humanity: the Mezquita-Catedral, its endless red-and-white arches enclosing a cathedral raised within the mosque. Around it lie the Judería, the flower-filled patios for which the city is famous, and the Roman bridge over the Guadalquivir.
Once the capital of Islamic Spain — a forest of arches and a maze of whitewashed patios.
