So after we finally made it home after Morocco (our bus broke down on the way home), we got to sleep, headed out the next day to Cordoba. Here we went the Cathedral or Mezquita there. This place was pretty awesome. It is still considered the third largest Mosque in the world. It's so big that when the city was retaken from the Moors in the 1200's they just built a Catholic Cathredral in it. It's such a big place you can't even see the cathedral part in the picture! Seriously though, something like 5 different cultures added on to this building.
Oddly though the catholics seems to show off their immenseness by building these huge solid gold thingys to hold the spirit of Christ or something. I wasn't really paying attention as I was distracted by the shine.
We then headed down to Sevilla and an odd thing about this city is back in the early 1900's they decided to have a world fair, and well countries from around the world built pavillions. Take a look at this Spanish pavillion. It's HUGE. It's a really pretty building. I just find it odd that its original purpose was for tourist information.
Next we went to the Cathedral in Sevilla. It's a big one too, like the 3rd biggest in the world. It had two alters in it while we there. One of gold, and one of silver.
It is also home to one of Christopher Columbus's three graves.
Also a fun bit of info is that often when Catholic Churches where built instead of building a new bell tower often they would just convert a Spiral Minaret. This was the case at most of the Cathedrals we saw. This one had ramps to the top so that they could ride a horse to the top instead of walk.
I made Katie walk it in 10 minutes, all 90 meters, and she was not happy.
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