Construction commenced in AD 785, guided by Abd al-Rahman I’s singular vision to create a mosque similar to those in Damascus and Baghdad. After the fall of Al-Andalus and the Spanish ...

Five centuries later, visitors can return to those ancient times at Hammam Al-Andalus. Expert archaeologists ... 13th-century building next to a former mosque. The interior of the bathhouse ...

served as the model for the Giralda mosque of Seville, in al-Andalus during the reign of the Almohad dynasty. The third ...

In the buzzing heart of Córdoba, it’s easy to see why the caliphs of Al-Andalus chose the city as the capital of their western European empire in AD 711. The labyrinthine streets – where ...