OOOhhh, and I present my second home...Where I'm studying Medicine, where it's too hot :D Today a moderately-sized modern city, the old town contains many impressive architectural reminders of when Cordoba was the thriving capital of the Caliphate of Cordoba that governed almost all of the Iberian peninsula. The city is located in a depression of the valley of the Guadalquivir. In the north is the Sierra Morena, which defines the borders of the municipal area. About the architecture, we can found the Great Mosque of Cordoba which contains columns that date back to the Roman and Visigothic periods, was primarily constructed during the Umayyad period (its construction started in 784), and was converted to a Cathedral after the Reconquista. Tourism is especially intense in Cordoba during May because of the weather and as this month ... read more

Un viajecito a Granada, última tierra en ser reconquistada en 1492 por los Reyes Católicos. Gente estupenda, buen clima, tierra, una candidata a maravilla del mundo..Se puede pedir más? A little of history.... ABOUT CATHOLIC MONARCHS Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, whose marriage (1469) led to the unification of Spain, of which they were the first monarchs. Although employed earlier, the appellation Católicos was formally conferred on them in a bull published by Pope Alexander VI in 1494, in recognition of their reconquest of Granada from the Moors (1481-92), their New World discoveries (1492), and their strengthening of the church by such agencies as the Spanish Inquisition and such measures as compelling Jews to convert to Christianity or face exile (1492). The title of Católicos was afterward transmitted to the successors of ... read more