Full day in Cordoba

We spent the morning in the Archaeological Museum which has pre-historic, Roman and Moorish sections all very well displayed. The Roman finds are particularly fine as Cordoba was the capital of the Roman province of Baetica, which is just as well as there are very few buildings surviving in the town. Most were re-modelled or used as building material by the Moors who expanded Cordoba to around 500,000 inhabitants. The Roman temple in one square consists of some authentic foundations and several rather new looking columns erected on modern brick plinth. We had another good lunch in the sun in a pretty square typical of a Plaza Mayor in some towns but unique in Andalusia.Read more