On November 2, 1984, in the city of Buenos Aires, Unesco declared La Mezquita de Córdoba a World Heritage Site.
Cordoba Mosque
Visiting the Mosque - Cathedral of Cordoba is to walk through the most important monument of all the Islamic West, in its history the complete evolution of the Umayyad style in Spain is summarized, in addition to the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles of Christian construction.
Under Visigothic domination the basilica of San Vicente was built on this site, on which the mosque was then built, it was shared by Christians and Muslims for a time. When the Muslim population was growing, it was acquired in its entirety by Abderraman I and destroyed for the definitive construction of the first Alhama Mosque. All this and more you can discover in the first World Heritage Site if you decide to visit Cordoba.
The Historical Center
On December 17, 1994, he extended the previous declaration to the entire Historical Center of Córdoba. The historic center of Cordoba is one of the largest ancient city centers in Europe. It possesses a great monumental wealth conserving great vestiges of the Roman, Arab and Christian times. In our Casco Historico Free Tour, we travel a good part of the heritage route and you can always complete it with the Free Walking Tour Legends of the Jewish quarter, where visiting Cordoba from Door to Door is possible.
Court Yards "Patios"
On December 6, 2012 Unesco declared the Inmaterial Heritage of Humanity to the party of Los Patios de Córdoba. At the beginning of May, the festival of courtyards takes place in Cordoba. The houses with patios are collective dwellings inhabited by several families, or groups of individual dwellings, which have a common patio and are located in the old quarter of the city. The courtyards are decorated with countless plants of multiple varieties.
The party includes two main events, the Patios Contest and the Festival of the Courtyards of Córdoba.
Medina Azahara, the bright city
On July 1, 2018, UNESCO, meeting in the city of Manama in Bahrain, approved the candidacy submitted by Spain to register the Caliphal City of Medinat Al-Zahra on the World Heritage list
This archaeological site includes vestiges of the palatial city built in the mid-tenth century by the Umayyad dynasty to be the seat of the caliphate of Cordoba.
This site includes numerous infrastructure roads, bridges and hydraulic systems as well as buildings, decorative elements and objects for daily use that allow to know more thoroughly the epoch of maximum splendor of the western Islamic civilization of al-Andalus.
