MADRID – A regional government in southern Spain has filed a complaint with Roman Catholic Church authorities over what it believes are church moves in recent years to blot out the Islamic past of ...

Step into a storybook town where whitewashed walls are punctuated by flower-filled patios and a mosque dating back more than ...

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Roman walls, Moorish arches, and Christian bell towers all woven together beneath the same Andalusian sun.To walk through Córdoba in bloom is to experience Spain at its most layered and poetic — a ...

RLV: The use of two patterns of arches supported by a series of columns created an unusual flow of space and shadows above and spatial references for the person walking through what would be a very ...

Do you know the difference between the government and we the people? In case you do not, let me explain. It is not the government saying the mosque should not be built near ground zero. And, yes, the ...

“The Great Mosque of Cordoba.” That’s what Unesco—the cultural arm of the United Nations—calls the 24,000-square-foot 10th-century structure visited by 1.5 million tourists a year. It was declared a ...

RLV: Example of how a square plan can read like a hexagon and integrate previous patterns of arches found below. Intricate use of tiling in complementary geometric shapes in the spaces found between ...