I alternate between loving and hating Cordoba. As each coach load of tourists passes, filling the narrow lanes with the whirring of a hundred cameras, I love it a little less. Every time I see another shop selling child sized flamenco dresses another piece of my heart dies. Then I take the wrong turn down an alley and among the blessed calm find the other side of Cordoba. There is a reason the coaches come here, it’s beautiful. The other Cordoba has amazing food, the local wine is sublime and the tiny plazas are empty. You see more of the other side of Cordoba when you get out of the Judaria and head into the modern city to the places where locals live, shop, eat and drink.
The Cordoba that everybody finds centres around the Mesquita. A cathedral in a mosque, built on the site of a Visigoth church using roman pillars. Sound confusing? Well remarkably it all comes together
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