Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - Cordoba

300 B.C.: Phoenician city
1st century: Roman bridge over Guadalquivir River
711 – 1236: Moslem / Arab speaking
10th century: Greatest city in Europe: 1,000,000
12th century: home of Maimonedes and Averroes
2003 population: 310,000
Córdoba
Córdoba: notice Roman gate, mosque, and
Sierra Morena in background
Catedral-mezquita de Córdoba
Roman temple of Juno
c. 350 A.D.: San Vicente Church
Mosque (785-987; to 1236): cap. 25,000
Cathedral (1250-2003)
Catedral basílica de Santa María
Mosque layout from
above
Mezquita
Mosque
Mosque
Roman bridge
over Guadalquivir