Toby and Allan in Spain 2020

The warm, sunny days had to take a pause sometime.  Saturday February 29 was a mainly cloudy day with a high of 17C. We headed out in the late morning to Plaza Corredera where there is a daily market from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  (except for Sunday).  We found some nice fish, but there were not many other stalls open.  We decided to go back to the square we had found in the San Basilio neighbourhood just after we arrived.  There is a wonderful fish store there along with very good fruit and vegetable stores.  We decided that this would be our go to destination for food shops.  It is about the same distance from our apartment as Plaza Corredera, though west rather than north. Nice fish at the Mercado Corredera Quiet day at the market Quiet streets on a Saturday late morning After our shop, we headed back to the apartment for lunch.  We headed out again to go to the Mercado Victoria, a gourmet food market we had heard about. One ...

Friday February 28 warmed up to a lovely 24C.  We headed out to meet our Free Tour at 10:30 a.m. at Plaza de las Tendillas.  Christina was our guide from Oway Tours.  She is originally from Hungary, moved here eight years ago to study tourism and decided to stay.  She was very knowledgeable about her adopted city. Christina first spent some time on the history of Córdoba starting with its founding in mid 2nd century BC by the Roman Marcus Claudius Marcellus.  It grew in importance and came to be regarded as the capital of the Roman province of Hispanic Ulterior.   The Visigoths then came to Córdoba, but left very little behind.  In 711 AD, the Moors took control of Córdoba and made it the capital of a new province in the Arabic world which came to be called Al-Andalus.  Moorish Córdoba reached its zenith under Abd al Rahman III, who established a Caliphate which was independent of Damascus.  In 929, Córdoba became the most flourishing an...