As we entered this gate from Roman times you could just imagine life as it was then. The old watermill is still beside the river and can work but they choose not to keep it going. Souvenir shops are everywhere selling painted plates, flamenco dresses for kids, bullfighter aprons and so on. The most beautiful filigree jewelry in silver. So delicate. The outside of a lot of the buildings are whitewashed so are very clean looking and this helps to keep the heat ou...

Visited the oldest mosque built in 700 then in 1236 it was transformed into a cathedral by adding bells to the tower and building an altar in the middle of the mosque. Simple. This building covers 2 football fields in size so it's massive. The pillars are still the same ones carved out of various rock and some were made of alabaster with rock. Pillars, double arches,and wooden ceilings are the main component of this building. We...

Another early start for our trip to Cordoba. After 1 1/2 hr drive through some very parched farm land we arrived in Cordoba. We passed an area that has a relativey new Spanish invention called the "andaluz sun". Not sure about the spelling... but it was built to harness the sun's energy to produce electricity by harnessing the sun's rays through mirrors. They pump water through it to create steam, to run some turbines and voila... electricity. Looks very futurist...

It was so hot yesterday afternoon that we all felt like we were melting. It felt sooo good to be in our air conditioned room and have a shower. We dressed for dinner and experienced an evening of Flamenco. Dinner and Flamenco dancing with the traditional music and singing. The red wine is very earthy and dark but good. Don't feel like too much wine because of the heat but it was a great evening. Even at 9:00 at night the temp was still 30 degrees. Now I understa...

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