Medina Azahara Tour from Cordoba
Córdoba, Spain
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Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 3 hours
Guided tour to Medina Azahara, the Bright City, where the Caliphs of Alandalus have lived and received the most important ambassadors of the world.
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Guided tour to Medina Azahara, the Bright City, where the Caliphs of Alandalus have lived and received the most important ambassadors of the world.
There are three things to do in Medina Azahara:
1) Visiting the archaeological site. There is a special bus to get in the archaeological site (it takes 10 minutes). You will need to show the same bus ticket that you used before to get in the bus. The guided tour of the Medina Azahara archaeological site will take 90 minutes. Medina Azahara is the ruins of a vast, fortified Arab Muslim medieval palace-city built by Abd-ar-Rahman III al-Nasir, Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba, and located on the western outskirts of Córdoba, Spain. It was an Arab Muslim medieval town and the de facto capital of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain, as the heart of the administration and government was within its walls. Built beginning in 936-940, the city included ceremonial reception halls, mosques, administrative and government offices, gardens, a mint, workshops, barracks, residences, and baths. Water was supplied through aqueducts.
2) Visiting the museum. After visiting the archaeological site, the next thing to do is to go to the museum (the museum is inside the Visitors Center).
3) Watching a video. The video will show you how Medina Azahara was when it was alive. It will take 20 minutes.
At 2:00pm the bus will be at the same place where it left you before. At 2:15pm it will go back to Córdoba.
1) Visiting the archaeological site. There is a special bus to get in the archaeological site (it takes 10 minutes). You will need to show the same bus ticket that you used before to get in the bus. The guided tour of the Medina Azahara archaeological site will take 90 minutes. Medina Azahara is the ruins of a vast, fortified Arab Muslim medieval palace-city built by Abd-ar-Rahman III al-Nasir, Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba, and located on the western outskirts of Córdoba, Spain. It was an Arab Muslim medieval town and the de facto capital of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain, as the heart of the administration and government was within its walls. Built beginning in 936-940, the city included ceremonial reception halls, mosques, administrative and government offices, gardens, a mint, workshops, barracks, residences, and baths. Water was supplied through aqueducts.
2) Visiting the museum. After visiting the archaeological site, the next thing to do is to go to the museum (the museum is inside the Visitors Center).
3) Watching a video. The video will show you how Medina Azahara was when it was alive. It will take 20 minutes.
At 2:00pm the bus will be at the same place where it left you before. At 2:15pm it will go back to Córdoba.
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