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My bathroom: Have you ever seen anything so bizarre in your life?


Me. Duh. I haven't changed that much. I'm standing in the garden of oranges, even though there aren't any oranges. The mosque is to my left.


An extremely non-representative view of this amazing mosque. What makes it so amazing is that it's HUGE, built in about 5 different phases as the population of Cordoba got bigger and bigger. It's particularly unique, aside from its size, because of these double arches that are red and white striped. Also interesting is that when the Catholics came in, they decided to knock down part of the middle of the mosque and build a cross-shaped church. Goodbye red and white, hello marble and wood. It's really interesting, and you're just going to have to go visit because my photos pretty much suck.




The focal point of the mosque. Where the reader stood. It should face Mecca (west?), but instead it faces (south?). It's an anomaly of mosques that they don't really understand.


One of the three remaining synagogues in left standing from the ol' days of the Reyes Catolicos. It was about as big as my room, but it was beautiful nonetheless.


Que bonita.