Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Córdoba, Spain

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 7.8 km
Ascend 148 m
Descend 146 m

Experience Córdoba in Spain in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in CórdobaIndividual Sights in Córdoba

Sight 1: Anfiteatro de Córdoba

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The Amphitheatre of Cordoba is an ancient Roman amphitheatre located in the city of Cordoba, Spain. Built in the first century, it is the largest known amphitheatre in Hispania and the third largest in the entire empire after the Colosseum and the amphitheatre of Carthage, although at the time of its construction it was the largest ever built. The amphitheatre was active until the beginning of the fourth century.

Wikipedia: Anfiteatro de Córdoba (ES)

509 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Mausoleos Romanos

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The Roman mausoleum of Córdoba is an ancient structure in the Jardines de la Victoria, Córdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain. It is a funerary monument of cylinder-shaped that corresponded to a group of funerary monuments of the Republican era, built in the 1st century AD. It was discovered in 1993 during archaeological excavations.

Wikipedia: Roman mausoleum of Córdoba (EN)

131 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Monumento al Duque de Rivas

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The monument to the Duke of Rivas is a sculptural monument dedicated to the poet and playwright Ángel de Saavedra, located in the Victoria Gardens of Córdoba (Spain). The work of the famous sculptor Mariano Benlliure, it was built in 1929. It was said that this sculpture alone was enough to justify the fame of its author.

Wikipedia: Monumento al Duque de Rivas (Córdoba) (ES)

161 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Monumento a Julio Romero de Torres

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The monument to Julio Romero de Torres is a commemorative monument, dedicated to that painter, located in the Gardens of Agriculture in the city of Córdoba (Spain) and made in 1940. It was promoted by the City Council of Cordoba in homage after the death of the painter, commissioning the work to the Almeria sculptor Juan Cristóbal González Quesada who used mainly stone for the set and bronze for the sculpture.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Julio Romero de Torres (Córdoba) (ES)

351 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Colegiata de San Hipólito

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The Royal Collegiate Church of Saint Hippolytus is a Catholic Church in Córdoba, (Spain) founded in 1343 at the initiative of King Alfonso XI of Castile. The church, which was later granted in perpetuity to the Society of Jesus, contains the tombs of King Ferdinand IV and his son Alfonso XI.

Wikipedia: Royal Collegiate Church of Saint Hippolytus (EN)

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Iglesia de San Nicolás de la Villa

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San Nicolás de la Villa is a church in Córdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain.

Wikipedia: San Nicolás de la Villa (EN)

294 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Iglesia de San Juan y Todos los Santos

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San Juan y Todos los Santos, also known as Iglesia de la Trinidad, is a Catholic church located on the Plaza de la Trinidad in Córdoba, Spain. It stands on the site of the former Convento de la Trinidad established shortly after Fernando III conquered the city in 1236. Built in the Baroque style, it forms part of the Historic centre of Córdoba, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Wikipedia: San Juan y Todos los Santos (EN)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Casa del Indiano

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Casa del Indiano José Luis Filpo Cabana / CC BY 4.0

The House of the Indian, also known as the Casa de los Ceas, was a house-palace located in the Ángel de Torres de Córdoba (Spain) square. Currently, only the main facade of the building is preserved, being the interior occupied by apartments and La Calleja del Indiano, which is accessed by the door of the old facade.

Wikipedia: Casa del Indiano (Córdoba) (ES)

268 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Casa de Sefarad

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The Casa de Sefarad, located in Córdoba (Spain), is a museum and cultural center opened in 2006 about Sephardic culture, history and tradition. It is located in an old Jewish house from the fourteenth century in the heart of the Jewish quarter and just opposite the Synagogue of Cordoba. It is a privately owned museum.

Wikipedia: Casa de Sefarad (Córdoba) (ES)

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Iglesia de San Pedro de Alcántara

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Iglesia de San Pedro de AlcántaraKennosuke Yamaguchi from Saitama, Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0

The church of San Pedro de Alcantara is a Roman Catholic church located in the city of Cordoba, Spain. It is located in the Plaza del Cardenal Salazar in the Jewish Quarter of Cordoba, included in the denomination of Historic Center of Cordoba, recognized as a World Heritage Site. It is also protected with the category of Asset of Cultural Interest.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Pedro de Alcántara (Córdoba) (ES)

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: historic centre

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The historic centre of Córdoba, Spain is one of the largest of its kind in Europe. In 1984, UNESCO registered the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba as a World Heritage Site. A decade later, it expanded the inscription to include much of the old town. The historic centre has a wealth of monuments preserving large traces of Roman, Islamic, and Christian times.

Wikipedia: Historic centre of Córdoba (EN)

59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Calleja de las Flores

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Calleja de las FloresAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

The Calleja de las Flores is one of the most popular tourist streets of Córdoba city in Andalusia, Spain. Positioned as an intersection of the street Velázquez Bosco, is a narrow street that ends in a plaza.

Wikipedia: Calleja de las Flores (EN)

302 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Iglesia de Santa Ana

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The Convent of Santa Ana is a religious building located on Ángel de Saavedra Street in the city of Cordoba, Spain. It is a Baroque-style temple with a Latin cross floor plan and on whose façade, in a niche, is the representation of Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Child. The enclosure stands out for its cloister, the Renaissance staircase with the founder's coat of arms and a loggia that communicates with the back garden.

Wikipedia: Convento de Santa Ana (Córdoba) (ES)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Teatro Góngora

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The Góngora Theatre, also known as Góngora Cinema or Pathè Cinema, is a theatre in Córdoba, Spain. It was built as a cinema between 1929 and 1932, designed by the Madrid architect Luis Gutiérrez Soto. Built on the site of the old convent of Jesús María, it occupies 950 m², and is located on Jesús María street.

Wikipedia: Teatro Góngora (ES)

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Silos

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The Royal Church of El Salvador and Santo Domingo de Silos and the College of Santa Catalina de Córdoba (Spain) were conceived as a single entity and constitute a set of buildings around which the urban fabric of the city is formed. It was built by the Society of Jesus in the sixteenth century.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Salvador y Santo Domingo de Silos (Córdoba) (ES)

7 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: Triunfo de San Rafael

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The Triumph of San Rafael in the Plaza de la Compañía is one of the many triumphs in the city of Córdoba (Spain) dedicated to the archangel San Rafael, guardian angel of the city. It is located in the Plaza de la Compañía and was one of the first triumphs that the city had. It was built by the contributions that the faithful made for its construction on the site that is still preserved in 1736.

Wikipedia: Triunfo de San Rafael (Plaza de la Compañía) (ES)

240 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Templo romano

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The Spanish city of Córdoba has the remains of a Roman temple, which was discovered in the 1950s during the expansion of City Hall. It is located in the angle formed by the streets Claudio Marcelo and Capitulares. It was not the only temple that the city had, but it was possibly the most important of all, and the only known by archaeological excavation. It is a Pseudoperipterus, hexastyle and of Corinthian order temple of 32 meters long and 16 wide.

Wikipedia: Roman temple of Córdoba (EN), Url

52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Córdoba

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Córdoba, or sometimes Cordova, is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. It is the third most populated municipality in Andalusia.

Wikipedia: Córdoba, Spain (EN)

132 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Iglesia de San Pablo

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San Pablo is a church and former convent in Córdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain. The present church and defunct convent were built on a space that always harbored large buildings for its location at the door of the city along one of the main access roads. A Roman Circus predated a Muslim palace before Almohad Christians built a Dominican convent.

Wikipedia: San Pablo, Córdoba (EN)

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Convento de Santa Marta

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The Convento de Santa Marta is a convent in Córdoba, Spain, on Calle de Santa Marta. Founded in 1464, it belongs to the female branch of the order Hieronymites.

Wikipedia: Convento de Santa Marta (EN)

183 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Fuente de la Fuenseca

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The Fuenseca fountain is a fountain located in the square of the same name, in the San Andrés-San Pablo neighborhood of the city of Córdoba (Spain). It was built in 1808 as a reconstruction of an older fountain. It owes its name to the low flow of the original fountain, built in the fifteenth century.

Wikipedia: Fuente de la Fuenseca (ES)

250 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Cristo de los Faroles

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Cristo de los Faroles

The Christ of Atonement and Mercy, popularly known as the Christ of the Lanterns, is a large Crucifix located at the Plaza de los Capuchinos in Cordoba, Spain.

Wikipedia: Christ of the Lanterns (EN), Url

387 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 23: Monumento a Manolete

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The Manolete Monument is a sculpture dedicated to the bullfighter Manolete that is located in the Plaza del Conde de Priego in the city of Córdoba (Spain). This monument, the work of the sculptor Manuel Álvarez Laviada, was inaugurated on May 8, 1956.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Manolete (Córdoba) (ES)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 24: Palacio Marqués de Viana

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Palacio Marqués de Viana

The Viana Palace is a palace-museum of the city of Córdoba (Spain), located in the Santa Marina neighborhood. On March 27, 1981, he was declared a cultural interest in the monument category.

Wikipedia: Palacio de Viana (Córdoba) (ES), Website, Url

308 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 25: Iglesia Conventual de San Agustin

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The Church of San Agustín is a church in Cordoba, Spain. Located in the Plaza de San Agustín, construction began in 1328, and there is evidence of the construction of the main chapel in 1335. The current appearance of the church is from the first third of the seventeenth century.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Agustín (Córdoba) (ES)

360 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 26: Iglesia de San Lorenzo

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San Lorenzo is a church in Córdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain. Situated in the historic centre, it was one of the twelve religious buildings commissioned by king Ferdinand III of Castile in the city after its conquest in the early 13th century.

Wikipedia: San Lorenzo, Córdoba (EN)

460 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 27: Iglesia de la Magdalena

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Santa María Magdalena is a church in Córdoba, Spain, built in the Mudejar style. It forms part of the Historic centre of Córdoba, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and is named after Jesus' companion, Mary Magdalene.

Wikipedia: Santa María Magdalena, Córdoba (EN)

455 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 28: Iglesia de San Andrés

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The church of San Andrés is one of the so-called Fernandine churches of Córdoba (Spain). The temple was founded in the thirteenth century and underwent numerous renovations in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. On April 17, 1985 it was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Monument.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Andrés (Córdoba) (ES)

265 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 29: Jardines de Orive

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The Orive Gardens is an urban park in Córdoba (Spain), located between Pedro López Street and Orive Square.

Wikipedia: Jardines de Orive (Córdoba) (ES)

777 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 30: Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Córdoba

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Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Córdoba Hermann Junghans / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

The Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of Córdoba is a museum in Córdoba, Spain. Owned by the Spanish State, its management has been transferred to the Ministry of Culture of the Junta of Andalusia.

Wikipedia: Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of Córdoba (EN)

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