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Places: Spain » Andalusia » Cordoba » Cordoba
City of Cordoba is capital of Cordoba province. It is located in southern Spain, in autonomous community of Andalusia, 121 km northeast of city of Seville. The city is situated on the banks of the Guadalquivir river.
The town was founded in ancient Roman times as Corduba by Claudius Marcellus. The old town contains many impressive architectural reminders of when Córdoba was the thriving capital of the Caliphate of Córdoba that governed almost all of the Iberian peninsula. It has been estimated that Córdoba, with up to 500,000 inhabitants in the tenth century, was the largest city in Western Europe and, perhaps, in the world.
Cordoba was considered a centre of learning and culture and the Mecca of the west. Nowadays Cordoba is a modern city that keeps many impressive architectural reminders from the past.
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municipality of Cordoba
City of Cordoba is capital of Cordoba province. It is located in southern Spain, in autonomous community of Andalusia, 121 km northeast of city of Seville. The city is situated on the banks of the Guadalquivir river.
The town was founded in ancient Roman times as Corduba by Claudius Marcellus. The old town contains many impressive architectural reminders of when Córdoba was the thriving capital of the Caliphate of Córdoba that governed almost all of the Iberian peninsula. It has been estimated that Córdoba, with up to 500,000 inhabitants in the tenth century, was the largest city in Western Europe and, perhaps, in the world.
Cordoba was considered a centre of learning and culture and the Mecca of the west. Nowadays Cordoba is a modern city that keeps many impressive architectural reminders from the past.
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General Facts about municipality of Cordoba
Longtitude: -4.70867385
Latitude: 37.85509643
Aerial Distance to Madrid: 305.954km
Postal code(s) : 14000-14014, 14029, 14071, 14080, 14105, 14115, 14129, 14191, 14193, 14350, 14511, 14549, 14610, 14659, 14710, 14813, 14814, 14816, 14820, 14859, 14915, 14950, 14979 >>
Area size: 1255.00km2 >>
Population: 308072 inhabitants >>
Call Cordoba from Spain: 957 xxx xxx >>
International calls: ++34 957 xxx xxx
Places of Interest when visit municipality of Cordoba
- Great Mosque "La Mezquita" (municipality Cordoba; category: Mosque;)
- Alcázar of the Christian Kings (municipality Cordoba; category: Fortress;)
- The Tower of Calahorra (municipality Cordoba; category: Ancient architecture;)
- Calahorra Tower (municipality Cordoba; category: Ancient architecture;)
- Church Santa Marina de Aguas Santas (municipality Cordoba; category: Church;)
- Archeological Museum of Córdoba (municipality Cordoba; category: Museum;)
- Ethnological Museum of Córdoba (municipality Cordoba; category: Museum;)
- Julio Romero de Torres Museum (municipality Cordoba; category: Museum;)
- Museum of Fine Arts (municipality Cordoba; category: Museum;)
- Botanical Museum of Cordova (municipality Cordoba; category: Parks & Gardens;)
- Bullfighting Museum (municipality Cordoba; category: Museum;)
- Garden of the Victory (municipality Cordoba; category: Parks & Gardens;)
- Garden of the Conde de Vallellano (municipality Cordoba; category: Parks & Gardens;)
- Garden of Juan Carlos I (municipality Cordoba; category: Parks & Gardens;)
- Plaza del Potro (municipality Cordoba; category: Square;)
- Arab waterwheels and Roman bridge (municipality Cordoba; category: Bridge; satellite view >>)
- Judería quarter (municipality Cordoba; category: Ancient architecture; satellite view >>)
- Plaza de la Corredera (municipality Cordoba; category: Square; satellite view >>)
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