The first thing you notice about Cordoba in spring is the smell. When the orange trees that line the streets and the jasmines that climb the walls blossom, the whole city fills with their sultry fragrance.

The historic centre of Cordoba is a Unesco world heritage site that bears memories of its Roman, Moorish and Catholic past. It’s too much of a cliche to say a place is like another world, but there aren’t many places just three hours from London where you can trace thousands of years and three civilisations’ worth of history in one place.

Seville may be the capital of Andalusia , but Cordoba fights its corner with all the energy you’d expect from Southern Spain.

What to see in Cordoba

Half-mosque, half-cathedral, Cordoba’s Mezquita is an architectural chimera that’s all the more bea

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