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This beautiful poem reflects perfectly the feeling that progress step by step through this magical temple, surrounded by columns and voussoirs colors, red and white, which seems a strange nonsignalized in a maze of lights and shadows. Progressant of its interior, without reducing Vista, always watching their arches and ceilings, which we heard in the midst of their silence, in the way that our marble passages are lost on a route in no particular order, nor definitive. But we begin with it is perhaps one of the most beautiful places that we find ourselves in Cordoba, the city which houses Caliphate this impressive work of art that is the mosque: Patio de los Naranjos. At its heart, and try to inhale its scents April and May-orange flower, freshness, freedom. And surrounded in the warm scent, remember how Arabic at the time, then, in the courtyard of ablution are the same, that justice at the gates of the temple were distributed, we will look at another of his hand, and They will, or astronomers, mathematicians and many scholars who populated Cordoba at the time that one of his knowledge spread among people on foot, and the actors and theaters or entertaining with their legends and stories for children, who, sitting around themselves around Entassés Hers. El Patio de los Naranjos, today, is regarded as the oldest living garden of Europe, because its origins date to the year 784, under the rule of Abd al-Rahman I. If nicialmente, these gardens were mainly composed of cypress and palm trees, these days are invading orange: orange nineties, which was planted in the eighteenth century.
Since the sixteenth century, on the other hand, are the cloisters, on one side of the garden, we can observe. Its close proximity to one hundred and thirty meters, and sealed, is divided into three gardens in the center of which there is a wonderful source. … And once inhaled admired and atmosphere of this magnificent garden, the heart shrinks when you put your foot in the temple and see for the first time the impressive Hall of Columns… more than 800 columns and arches, which are distributed and Hide geometrically Back at the bottom in an endless landscape. One was clean Abd al-Rahman I, which began its construction, the construction of its first oratorio, in the mid-eighth century, is modeled on a mosque that existed at that time in Jerusalem. The result was the construction of eleven boats with 110 columns of marble and granite, with capitals and Roman. Of these, vaulted arches in red and white. Their descendants, Abd al-Rahman III, was ordered to lift Alminar half a century later, as Al-Hakam II has expanded the mosque twelve sections. In the last minute of Al-Manzor this is the part where the blue marble columns, the time that near the surface of the mosque doubled in size up to 24000 m2 a. Both perhaps the most beautiful parts of the temple belongs to the era of Al-Hakam II: marble Mihrab, the rich decoration work, and the octagonal cupola of the Kibla, with interlocking arcs. Meanwhile, the emphasis is on the ball and Corinthian capitals pale blue and pink. Perhaps the construction of the Cathedral Christian was one of the greatest aberrations than they were able to do so since the reform of the architecture, because part of the work done over time has been destroyed by Abd al-Rahman III and Almanzor. Its construction began under the supervision of a former Hernan Ruiz in 1523, by express mandate of Charles V, but it was not finished in the year 1766. In it, combine styles Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque, and the cruise ship are in a Latin cross, with Gothic arches. The area of Alminar, the tower located in the yard, from which Arabic time, it calls for prayer, has been covered with Baroque elements, which covers therefore, all those that Arabic remains the composer. It is necessary to insist on two curiosities in this building: first, I suppose that no mosque towards Mecca…. The latter in particular, despite being the third largest in the world, is not because his direction is towards Damascus, a city that felt by his passion Secondly Abd al-Rahman I, the situation in the Mihrab. The Mihrab is the holiest site of the Arabs tmeplo anyone, and recalling that the site occupied Prophet Mohammed in his mosque in Medina. It is located in the bow or put in the center of the wall of the Kibla, which marks the direction of Mecca. In the case of the Mosque of Cordoba, the Mihrab is not located in the center of the temple, where it should be, and this should be forthcoming expansion that has made Almanzor, to make the region in the East, because they no longer There was more space left by the other parties to the left of its location outside the school. … And once admired this wonder, declared a World Heritage Site, because we have left to us losing by narrow alleys of the city of the Jewish… But that is another story….
