A Travel Blog
We spent five weeks in Spain in late 2017, including a month in Seville and a week in Granada. We also took day trips to Córdoba and the Pueblos Blancos.
Though the main purpose of our day trip to Córdoba was to visit the Mezquita, the city itself is also very scenic and we enjoyed wandering and seeing how it differs from Seville.
Córdoba has more hills than Seville, and more narrow winding streets, particularly in the Juderia, or old Jewish quarter. It reminded us a bit of the Alfama neighbourhood in Lisbon.
On Saturday — the first cloudy day since we’ve been in Spain — we took a high-speed train from Seville to the city of Córdoba to visit the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, more commonly known as the Mezquita.
The train took 40 minutes each way, which was the perfect length for a convenient day trip. We headed to the Mezquita as soon as we arrived around 10 am.