In the 10th century, Córdoba was biggest city in Europe. It had more than 80 libraries, one of which had 400,000 books. This was at a time when 2% of the population could read.

In the 10th century Cordoba was an impressive place. It had a mixed Muslim, Jewish and Christian population of nearly a million – three times more than now – and was the capital of a great ...

In the restaurant’s first year, 2016, that was the 10th-century Caliphate of Cordoba. In 2017, it was the 11th-century Taifa Kingdoms. In 2018, it was the 12th and 13th-century Almoravids and ...

The mosque was indeed begun in the wake of a Muslim conquest—just not the conquest of the Christians. Rather, it was ordered built by the Umayyad emir Abd-ar-Ramman I, probably in part to ...