Córdoba: Guided Tour Of The Alcazar And Mosque-Cathedral With Tickets Included

We will begin our visit in the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos, and together with our guide, you will be able to know the secrets and events that took place there. Fortress built in the fourteenth century as a royal residence, the Catholic Monarchs spent long stays there) and later ceded in the late fifteenth century to the Spanish Holy Inquisition as its seat in Cordoba for more than three centuries.

You will be able to walk through its beautiful gardens just as Queen Elizabeth the Catholic did, you will be able to know its Roman past, through the many vestiges that are in it and you will be able to admire and photograph the innumerable landscapes, ponds and flora that are in the themselves.

In the interior, you will be able to visit different rooms such as the Mozarabic Courtyard and the Islamic-inspired Doña Leonor de Guzmán Baths, or visit the Mosaic Hall, where original mosaics from the Roman period are exposed, as well as a Roman sarcophagus in perfect condition.

The visit will continue directing us, together with the guide, to the main monument of the city: The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba. Building built in the 8th century by the first Emir of Córdoba, Abderramán III and consecrated as the Cathedral of Córdoba in the 13th century.

We will enter its majestic Patio de los Naranjos, where you will learn many details about it and its bell tower. To finish, they will end up entering the interior of the building immersing themselves in a forest of Islamic columns and Christian chapels.

Our guide will explain and understand the importance of this building, because and how it was built, its successive extensions and its subsequent consecration as the Cathedral of Córdoba.