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14-OCT-2009 Robert E. Parrish

The Mezquita

View for our hotel "balcony"
The most accomplished monument of the Umayyad dynasty of Córdoba
On an old Roman site, in 600s, the Visigothic Church of St. Vincent was built
In 784 work began to fashion "The Great Mosque of Córdoba", the Mezquita
1236 Ferdinand of Castile captured Córdoba and reconsecrated it as a Christian Church
Renaissance cathedral built inside by Carlos V, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin
Córdoba, Andulucia, Spain

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
1/200s f/9.0 at 28.0mm iso100 full exif

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