The city lies upstream from Seville on the Rio Guadalquivir and was once navigable as far as here. It was the largest city of Roman Spain and later formed the heart of the Islamic empire of the Moors.
The major monument to visit is the Mesquita, the grandest and most beautiful mosque constructed in Spain and later in 1236 a Christian Cathedral was consecrated inside the mosque built without destroying the Islamic architecture and the two seem to blend well together.
It's quite dark inside so takes some time for your eyes to aclimatise and then you begin to see the beauty of the place, it is absolute enormous and certainly does take your breath away! Each way you turn more wonderful architecture comes into view. We stayed inside for two hours, I think we actually made the circuit twice just to make sure we hadn't missed anything.
The rest of the city does have it's charms, especially the tapas bars, and the tiny church of San Bartolomé with it's tiled interior.
There is also a part of town where the locals adorned their tiny flower filled patios....very cute!
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