Córdoba
Thanks to an invitation of my gene van flatmate Miriam, I could spend an amazing weekend in Cordoba in Andalusia, which is in the south of Spain. It was already great for the weather, as we could enjoy temperatures around 28 degrees, and this in mid October.
On Friday we went to a wedding of a friend of Miriam, which took place in the Alcazar (a former castle), which is surrounded, by a huge park. This gave me the possibility to have an insight to a Spanish wedding, where many people were crying, screaming ¡Viva! During the ceremony, the woman dressed in colourful dresses and all men with the obligatory sunglasses. It was definitively a very lively ceremony and I understand why there are so many people marrying in this city. (We saw about 10 other marriages).
The castle in which the wedding took place and Miriam and me ready for the ceremony.
The rest of the weekend we spent walking around in the small alleys of the city, discovering nice places far from the other tourists, drinking "Tindo de Verano" (my new favourite drink - basically just red wine with sparkling water) and chatting for hours.
On Friday we also went to the Cathedral of Cordoba, which is actually a mix between a mosque and a cathedral. It was first built as a church but when the Arabs arrived in the south of Spain, they transformed it into a Mosque. After the defeat of the Arabs in Spain, they transformed the building once again, this time back into a cathedral. The impressing thing is that they did not destroy the Arab construction, as this was done so many times, but they actually just built the cathedral in the middle of the Arab building. So you can see very catholic constructions, with all the gold and crosses everywhere in the same building, just some meters away from Arab influenced ornaments.
Some impressions from the Cathedral:
On Friday we went to a wedding of a friend of Miriam, which took place in the Alcazar (a former castle), which is surrounded, by a huge park. This gave me the possibility to have an insight to a Spanish wedding, where many people were crying, screaming ¡Viva! During the ceremony, the woman dressed in colourful dresses and all men with the obligatory sunglasses. It was definitively a very lively ceremony and I understand why there are so many people marrying in this city. (We saw about 10 other marriages).
The castle in which the wedding took place and Miriam and me ready for the ceremony.
The rest of the weekend we spent walking around in the small alleys of the city, discovering nice places far from the other tourists, drinking "Tindo de Verano" (my new favourite drink - basically just red wine with sparkling water) and chatting for hours.
On Friday we also went to the Cathedral of Cordoba, which is actually a mix between a mosque and a cathedral. It was first built as a church but when the Arabs arrived in the south of Spain, they transformed it into a Mosque. After the defeat of the Arabs in Spain, they transformed the building once again, this time back into a cathedral. The impressing thing is that they did not destroy the Arab construction, as this was done so many times, but they actually just built the cathedral in the middle of the Arab building. So you can see very catholic constructions, with all the gold and crosses everywhere in the same building, just some meters away from Arab influenced ornaments.
Some impressions from the Cathedral:
posted by regula at
1:41 PM
2 Comments:
ok, now you're makin me REALLY jealous :P
Greetings from cold, gray Manchester...
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Rx
Die welt ist echt sehr klein. I know MIriam from high school, can you please say hi to her???
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