Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Córdoba, Spain

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 4.9 km
Ascend 74 m
Descend 85 m

Explore Córdoba in Spain with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in CórdobaIndividual Sights in Córdoba

Sight 1: Plaza de toros de Los Califas

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Plaza de Toros de los Califas is a building in Córdoba, Spain. It is currently used for bull fighting. The stadium holds 14,000 people after the installation of red seats. It was built in 1965.

Wikipedia: Plaza de Toros de los Califas (EN)

1208 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 2: 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 4th century.

Wikipedia: Anfiteatro de Córdoba (ES)

613 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Jardines de la Victoria

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The gardens of victory are public gardens located in Córdoba, Spain. These gardens are located between two large avenues; The Victoria Paseo and the Argentine Republic Avenue. He receives his name from the convent of Our Lady of Victory, former convent demolished in the nineteenth century.

Wikipedia: Jardines de la Victoria (Córdoba) (ES)

283 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: 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)

394 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Casa de Sefarad

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La Casa de Sefarad, located in Cordoba (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 right in front of the Synagogue of Cordoba. This is a privately owned museum.

Wikipedia: Casa de Sefarad (Córdoba) (ES)

441 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: 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 7: Calleja de las Flores

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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 8: Iglesia de Santa Ana

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The Convent of Santa Ana is a religious building located on Calle Ángel de Saavedra in the city of Córdoba, Spain. It is a Baroque-style temple with a Latin cross floor plan and on whose façade, in a niche, there is a 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 9: Teatro Góngora

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The Góngora Theatre, also known as the Góngora Cinema or the 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 Calle Jesús María.

Wikipedia: Teatro Góngora (ES), Wheelchair Website

114 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Estatua al Gran Capitán

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The monument to the Great Captain is a work dedicated to Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba "El Gran Capitan", located in the Plaza de las Tendillas in the Spanish city of Córdoba. It is an equestrian sculpture in bronze, with the exception of the head, carved in white marble. It was built by Mateo Inurria from Cordoba in 1923, although it was moved to its current location in 1927.

Wikipedia: Monumento al Gran Capitán (Córdoba) (ES)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Triunfo de San Rafael

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The Triumph of Saint Raphael in the Plaza de la Compañía is one of the many triumphs in the city of Córdoba (Spain) dedicated to the archangel Saint Raphael, 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 thanks to the contributions made by the faithful for its construction on the site that is still preserved in 1736.

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

7 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Silos

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The Royal Church of El Salvador and Santo Domingo de Silos and the Colegio de 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 shaped. It was built by the Society of Jesus in the 16th century.

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

247 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: 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 14: 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)

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Plaza de la Corredera

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The Plaza de la Corredera is one of the most emblematic places in the Spanish city of Cordoba. It is the only quadrangular main square in Andalusia and is located in the historic district of La Axerquía. Although the first evidence of an irregular square dates back to the 14th century, the current square was built in 1683 by the architect Antonio Ramós Valdés at the behest of the magistrate Francisco Ronquillo Briceño. Its name comes from the bullfights that were held in this space, although autos-da-fé and executions of the Spanish Inquisition were also held.

Wikipedia: Plaza de la Corredera (ES), Url

356 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Museo de Bellas Artes

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The former Hospital of the Holy Charity of Our Lord Jesus Christ is located in the San Francisco -ribera neighborhood of the city of Córdoba (Spain). It was founded by the Brotherhood of the Holy Charity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the fifteenth century. Today is the Museum of Fine Arts in Córdoba, located in the Plaza del Potro.

Wikipedia: Hospital de la Caridad (Córdoba) (ES), Url, Facebook

59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Museo de Julio Romero de Torres

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The Julio Romero de Torres Museum is a museum located in the city of Córdoba, Spain, which is notable for containing the largest collection of the famous Cordoban painter Julio Romero de Torres. It is located in the building of the old Hospital of la Caridad, which also houses the Museum of Fine Arts of Córdoba. The museum has been declared a Bien de Interés Cultural in the category of monument since 1962.

Wikipedia: Julio Romero de Torres Museum (EN), Wheelchair Website

34 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 18: Fuente del Potro

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The fountain of Potro is a source located in the Potro Square in the city of Córdoba, Spain.

Wikipedia: Fuente del Potro (ES)

49 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Iglesia de San Francisco y San Eulogio

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The Church of San Francisco y San Eulogio is a Roman Catholic church in Cordoba, Spain. It belongs to the so-called Fernandine churches, as it was founded by the Castilian king Ferdinand III in the thirteenth century. Its original name was the convent of San Pedro el Real and it was managed by the Franciscan Order, hence its current name. The temple was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in the category of Monument on March 24, 1982.

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

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Arco del Portillo

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The Arch of the Portillo, also known as the Arch of San Francisco or the Portillo del Corbache, is an opening opened at the end of the 14th century in the eastern section of the wall that divided the Villa and the Axerquía in the city of Cordoba, Spain. It is located on Calle San Fernando, in front of the church of San Francisco. It connects the Cathedral district, belonging to the old Medina, and the San Francisco-Ribera neighborhood, in the old Axerquía.

Wikipedia: Arco del Portillo (ES)

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