There are few cities in the world such as the city of Córdoba, the cradle of cultures and roots of ancient civilizations, the origin of knowledge and the society of liberties. Enclave of religions and multiculturalism from the past to today.
Cordoba is unique, the capital of two empires that saw it flourish and develop. First capital of the Later Hispania, one of the richest and most prosperous territories, at the time of one of the greatest empires in the history of mankind, the Roman Empire.
Seneca intellectual and philosophical captain of a city, Cordoba, who had thinkers, doctors and the highest and most influential figures in the Roman Empire but, without forgetting his most flourishing period, Al-Andalus ...
Second, and never less important, Córdoba was the only capital of Al-Andalus, the period of the Islamic Empire in the Iberian Peninsula, when walking through Córdoba became a meeting of different monotheistic religions, which over the years became transformed into city of the three cultures.
Emphasizing the integration between their different societies, walking through Córdoba was to know the respect for ideas, open minds that accepted women in their public places and even gave one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages, such as Princess Wallada, of Arab origin belonging to the Omeya lineage.
The truth and truth is that knowledge and education was the basis of the economic development of Al-Andalus, doctors and doctors such as Mohamed Al-Gafequi, ophthalmologist or Ben Maimonides, considered the father of modern medicine and the greatest exponent of current psychology. they rivaled in the popular one of their studies, with Averroes that is considered at the present time in the father of the modern philosophy, translator of classic Greece, Socrates Plato and Aristotle among other texts of tremendous importance.
Qurtuba founded on knowledge has come to give Córdoba three of the four titles of World Heritage that today has.
Its old town of Islamic urbanism, its unique Omeya Mosque in the world, and the city Califal de Medina Azahara, recently declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. To these three titles we must add that of the courtyards party also added to the titles of Intangible Heritage of Humanity by Unesco. Not directly original of the Caliphate period, but denoting the influence of the Muslim in our traditions.
To all this we must add historical monuments to visit in Cordoba as. The Baths of the Caliphal Alcázar, Visit the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos and get lost in its fantastic gardens of Andalusian influence, the majestic Roman Bridge of Cordoba or the Palacio de Viana ...
To finish this article, another of the great symbols of Cordoba is to conserve one of the only three original synagogues of the Hebrew era in our country.
To the Synagogues of Toledo, the Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca and the Tránsito Synagogue, the third in discord, the Synagogue of Córdoba, Sephardic Jewish symbol, is added to immerse itself in the Hebrew culture in Al-Andalus.
