Month: November 2019

Aix-en-Provence is a French commune, ex-capital of Provence, headquarter of the Community of agglomeration of Aix, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur; founded in 122 BC. This is a spa town with a Mediterranean climate that has around 300 days of sunshine a year. The town is 33 km from Marseille. There are three rivers which cross it: the Arc, the Touloubre and the Torso. In its historic center, there are several buildings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the city counts with 140 historical monuments. To visit: St-Sauveur Cathedral with triptychs, altarpieces and remarkable tapestries, the cloister of St-Sauveur (late twelfth century), the Town Hall and the square of the same name with the clock tower, the Church of the Holy Spirit, the Church of St John of Malta, Des Quatre Dauphins Square, the Tourreluque (single vestige of the medieval walls), the fountains, among others. Outside the city there are also other historical monuments like the Bridge of Trois-Sautets or the Bridge of St-Pons,

Tips

You can explore the city and the countryside by bus, there are 26 regular lines.
If you want to go to Marseille or Gap, you can do it by train from the Aix-en-Provence center train station. If you arrive at the airport of Marseille, it is a good option to get to the city center.
There is also the TGV to 18 km from the city center for more remote destinations.

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Córdoba is a city located in the South of Spain, in Andalusia, capital of the province of the same name; located on the river Guadalquivir. Its historical centre is a UNESCO heritage. In 169 BC, it was occupied by the Romans and we can still find several monuments dating from that period. After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire the city passed into the hands of the Vandals and the Visigoths also having a brief Byzantine interlude. In 711, the Muslims conquered the city and it became the administrative and political centre of Muslim Spain. Throughout the 10th century, it competed with Baghdad by the size and its magnificence. It was one of the most populated cities of the West (year 1000), it had more than 600 mosques and 900 public baths. The city or Medina was surrounded by a wall beyond which the suburbs (rabad) developed and there was also a Jewish neighbourhood. The main monument is the Great Mosque. The craft was very present, they worked the leather, they manufactured paper and books and they also worked in the textile industry. It was a fairly cultured city. Around the years 1030 the Caliphate began to collapse, in 1086 the town was occupied by the Almoravids and in 1149 by the Almohads; its long decline began. Ferdinand III of Castile took over the city in 1236 but its decline continued. Muslims were still tolerated in the first decades of the Castilian domination and the Grand Mosque was converted into church under the rank of Cathedral. To see: the Cathedral, the Synagogue (one of the three Spanish synagogues remaining from the middle ages), Fernandine and Alfonsine churches (13th century), the Alcazar, the Church of Santa Marina, the walls encircling the city with its towers of origins Muslim and Christian, the Roman archaeological remains. the Muslim archaeological remains, the Roman bridge, the Judería (Jewish quarter), even as several gardens and parks among others.

Tips

In the Cathedral, there are small streets with typical patios, take a good walk, you will appreciate. If you’re there in May, you will find flowers everywhere.
If you like photography, please feel free to take beautiful images by going to the Roman Bridge especially in the sunset.
A good way to get there is by train, you can reach it from Madrid (1 h 45). from Barcelona (5 h 30) and from Sevilla (1 h 10). Once arrived, you count with a bus service.

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