Cordoba, Spain

The next city that we visited was Cordoba. The best part about this city was that our hotel was right next to the river and literally 20 feet away from the Great Mosque. The mosque that everyone architecture at catholic learns about. Well you get to see it here and it was just like you would imagine...Amazing. Inside it was very cold compared to the temperature outside. Possibly because of the dark materials that they chose for the inside. The pavement that I noticed was these huge marbel blocks that either got smaller or larger around the Mosque. Also inside of the courtyard of the Mosque there was another pavement, but one that I would see later in Southern Spain also. This pavement was seen around the trees and areas of walking. It basically was rocks that had grout in between them. The grout was actually the flat layer and all of the rocks were raised above. It was very intresting because it would also make patterns.