This ancient city was in its heyday a city of more than half a million, with hundreds of mosques, a center of science and learning, the most civilized capital in Europe. Its crowning jewel was The Great Mosque, part of it was destroyed to make way for a cathedral, built in its centre, but you can still recapture the spirit of Al-Andalus there...Leaving the Mosque, todays´s Córdoba greets the traveller with all the charm of a tolerant and congenial Andalusian city.