Cordoba Spain Andalusia
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Uniworld Boutique River Cruise (23 Cruises)
S.S. São Gabriel
23 Cruises
| 20 July | 20 days | One-way from Madrid to Porto-Leixoes |
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| 20 July | 19 days | One-way from Madrid to Porto-Leixoes |
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Frequently Asked Questions
From Seville, where ships travelling up the Guadalquivir tie up. Allow about an hour and three quarters by coach, or take the train. The day excursion is a highlight of any Andalusian river cruise.
The mosque-cathedral, and one of the most singular monuments in Europe: 856 columns of jasper, granite and marble beneath red and white striped arches, receding like a stone palm grove.
One to three hours, depending on how closely you look. Guided tours supply the essential keys. In high season, book a timed slot: the queues can be long.
It sums up the peninsula's own: a Roman temple by tradition, then a Visigothic church, then the great mosque of the caliphate, and finally a cathedral after the Reconquest, with a Renaissance nave planted in the middle of the prayer hall.
The old Jewish quarter, a maze of white lanes with limewashed walls and balconies of geraniums. It holds the synagogue of 1315, one of only three medieval synagogues still standing in Spain, tiny and finely stuccoed.
Interior courtyards carpeted with flowerpots and cooled by a fountain, inscribed on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list. Every May since 1921 a city competition celebrates the finest; out of season, several houses leave their flowered walls visible through half-open gates.
Its gardens, among the most carefully kept in Andalusia: long pools, fountains, cypress hedges and orange trees behind fortress walls raised in 1328 by Alfonso XI of Castile. Here the Catholic Monarchs received Christopher Columbus before his great departure.
By the Roman bridge, thrown across the Guadalquivir in the 1st century BC. Its sixteen arches lead to the Calahorra tower, the fortified gate that once guarded the city, and the old town reveals itself all at once from the deck of the bridge.
Comfortable shoes: the historic centre is walked entirely on cobbles. And water: the shade of the lanes keeps things cool, but the Andalusian summer does not forgive.
Because it was among the largest cities in the world, capital of a caliphate where Jewish, Muslim and Christian scholars shared the same streets. You cross a thousand years here in which civilizations built on one another rather than erasing each other.
