Cordoba and Sevilla - Sam Ozminkowski

This weekend's trip to Sevilla and Cordoba was a lot of fun. On Saturday we traveled to Cordoba where we saw the Mezquita, an old mosque that was converted into a church but mostly preserved.

It was beautiful. I was quite impressed by the fact that they were able to convert it into a church while keeping much of its original beauty. We also walked around the city of Cordoba for a few hours before travelling to Sevilla. On Sunday morning we began with a visit to the Plaza de España. Which was originally built for a World's Fair in 1914. Unfortunately, that world's fair didn't happen because of another world event: a World's War. Luckily, in 1929 the plaza got the fair it deserved. FUN FACT: the plaza was used to film Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

After the plaza, we visited the Alcazar of Sevilla.

I was impressed to find out that it is the oldest royal palace still in use today. It had especially beautiful gardens, and I was interested to learn that it was used to film parts of the HBO series Game of Thrones. After lunch we went to the cathedral in Sevilla.
It is the largest cathedral in Spain, and it was huge! We were able to climb the cathedral's tower, which instead of stairs has 35 ramps, where we had a breathtaking view of Sevilla. One thing that really impressed me about the cathedral in is that it only took 70 years to build! It was also interesting to learn that Christopher Columbus is buried inside the cathedral in Sevilla. FUN FACT: C. Columbus' body has decomposed so greatly that only about 200 grams of it remains.