So… I’m in Cordoba, next wonder of Andalusia, southern part of Spain. This city has a great and long history. More than 2000 years different cultures exchanged, sometimes lived together in peace and enriched each other, sometimes fought and demolished the city and citizens…

Córdoba was the capital of the Roman province of Hispania Ulterior Baetica. Great Roman philosopher Seneca and poet Lucan came from Roman Cordoba. Later, it occupied an important place in the Provincia Hispaniae of the Byzantine Empire and during the Visigoth period.
It was captured in 711 by the Moors, and Córdoba became capital during the Umayyad Caliphate, the period of its apogee, with a population of roughly 500,000 inhabitants. In the 10th century, Cordoba – called Qurṭuba in Arabic – was one of the most advanced cities in the world, as well as a great cultural, political and economic centre. Great people lived here: the Islamic scholar Averroes, the Jewish philosophers and doctors Maimonides and Halevi, the Renaissance poet Luis de Góngora and many more. In 1236 Cordoba was captured by King Ferdinand III during the Spanish Reconquista…

I began my walking tour through Cordoba early morning. Big cat met me near my hotel and from that time she was “my guide”, sometimes leading, sometimes following me. Everything what I knew about this place, it’s fantastic architecture, containing the elements of great cultures like mosque-cathedral Great Mezquita of Córdoba with it’s white-red arches and huge organ (having not only vertical but also horizontal pipes), Moorish, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque style all together, the Interlacing of narrow streets in Juderia, – all this sounded in my head as accords of great music of this city. That’s why I was not surprized when I saw the girl playing on harp right on the street. It were just three listeners of this enchanting sounds: me, the cat and… the doll in Andalusian costume… The performance finished, girl took her harp and gone, even my “guide” disappeared and only pour enchanted traveler left there, trying to hold the last accords of the music of Cordoba…