One in the eye in Cordoba
Wandering around the atmospheric backstreets of Cordoba, I came across this bust of one of the first attested eye-specialists in history. He was Mohamed Al-Gafequi, born sometime in 1165 in […]
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Mezquita of Cordoba
Cordoba’s great mosque, the Mezquita, was built in 786 and personifies the power of Islam on the peninsula at that time. Many different architectural forms were embodied in the mosque […]
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