Cordoba

At the end of my Christmas holidays, I spontaneously traveled to Cordoba. As I walked through the old Jewish Quarter, where stands 1 of 3 synogogues still in existence in Spain after the Spanish Inquisition, see walls lined with rows of flower pots and geraniums, look past the gates of the typical homes to see exquisite patios, and see the Cathedral towering overhead, I feel as though I am in another world. Each corner I turn there is another historical building or monument from hundreds of years ago, and I am clearly made aware of how young the United States really is. The city of Cordoba has been in existence since B.C. and has passed through many hands and religions. It has been through the hands of the Iberians, the Romans, the Arabs/Muslims who built the Mezquita, and then the Spanish Catholic kings who then built the Cathedral within the Mezquita, actually helping to preserve the Mezquita. Cordoba is an exquisite and intricate mixture of Roman, Catholic, Jewish, and Arab influences. It is amazing what they were able to build, and that with the technology we have today, those buildings of the past will continue to outlast what we will build today and in the future. Their devotion to their gods is clearly reflected in their architecture and continues, at least for the mean time, to achieve its purpose...to show the everlasting majesty of God.