Visit Cathedral Mosque of Córdoba

The Mosque-Cathedral left me speechless and the guide I don't remember its name was fantastic. Everyone should go see her when they can

To begin with, they notified us by WhatsApp that the visit was going to be delayed for half an hour, then we arrived at the meeting point and the gentleman visiting us was not there. After calling the number on both the page and the message more than 20 times, no one answered. By chance we decided to continue searching and a woman from another company told us where this man was, it turns out that he was going around to find more clients. Because of this the visit was delayed another half hour. In the end we entered an hour late and the visit was very short for how expensive it is.

This visit to the Cordoba Cathedral Mosque was a real wow experience. Basically it is a huge mosque that has been developed over the centuries, then when the Christians came along they recognised how unique it was so did not destroy it but rather built a cathedral within it, then to top it off a church was also built in the cathedral area. It is amazing, well worth the visit but take a guided tour to ensure you get the complex history behind it.

We did not go with this tour group, but we could not find a way to leave a TripAdvisor review that wasn't a review of a tour. This review simply pertains to this extraordinary landmark. Sometimes called La Mosquita is Córdoba’s unique landmark, Our Lady of the Assumption, a cathedral built inside the world’s third largest mosque (after those in Mecca and Medina). The arches of the old mosque section are elegant – large, semi-circular, with horseshoe arches beneath. The effect is beautiful and unusual, not to be missed by any visitor to this part of Spain.