La Mezquita
By this stage of life, I just celebrated 60 years, I wouldn't have guessed that I would be calling a building just visited the most amazing building I have ever seen, but this was the case with the Mezquita in Cordaba, Andulicía. I remeber seeing the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona for the first time in my early 20's and how shocked I was as the bus drove up to find that it was a real place and not the artists impression that I had assumed it to be having seen it on postcards upon entering Spain. Still my realtionship with the Gaudi Cathedral is still a little ambiguous, whereas it was an intoxicated love I experienced on entering the Mezquita. The layered history, so relevant for our times. The Great Mosque built in 785 CE on the site of an earlier christian church, which in turn was possibly built on an older roman temple. Converted to the Christian Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in 1236, it is currently the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Córdaba. One wonders