{"id":9495,"date":"2026-06-23T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:24:05","slug":"spain-day-6-the-mosque-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/23\/spain-day-6-the-mosque-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain, day 6 \u2014 The Mosque-Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Sarah asked me what I wanted to see in Spain, I was very flexible. I generally don\u2019t want to obsess over checking off every cool thing on a trip. But I did have one requirement: the Mosque\u2013Cathedral of C\u00f3rdoba<\/a>. I\u2019ve seen photos and illustrations since childhood, and I recall learning about it in a class on Islam in college. Something about the red and white striped arches always mesmerized me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality did not disappoint. I was surprised to find myself a bit choked up as I first entered the vast space. It is a stunning example of how two faiths used architecture to represent the sublime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Sarah asked me what I wanted to see in Spain, I was very flexible. I generally don\u2019t want to obsess over checking off every cool thing on a trip. But I did have one requirement: the Mosque\u2013Cathedral of C\u00f3rdoba. I\u2019ve seen photos and illustrations since childhood, and I recall learning about it in a … Continue reading Spain, day 6 \u2014 The Mosque-Cathedral<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,74],"tags":[51,144,13],"class_list":["post-9495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","category-travel","tag-pictures","tag-spain","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2968-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9496,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/9496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}