The Bell Tower of the Mosque of Cordoba returns, after a long period of lethargy, to be part of the tourist visit to the monument. The Tower had been inactive for 25 years due to a difficult task of adaptation and maintenance of some areas of its interior. You can take one of our guided tours of the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba if you click on the link.
The Bell Tower of the Mosque Cathedral of Cordoba
The minaret was built by the first Caliph Abderramán III in the 10th century and guided, for several centuries, the prayer of hundreds of thousands of Muslims who flocked to the Aljama Mosque every day to pray without fail. With the Christianisation of the Mosque and its conversion as a cathedral, its minaret suffered the same fate and became the Bell Tower of Cordoba Cathedral. But this change was not only in its identity, but also in its appearance. The current tower hides a great secret inside… a sort of “Russian doll” in which, as you go deeper, you discover new treasures. From the primitive minaret of Abderramán III, the room from which the muezzin called to prayer was removed and replaced by the bells. Its history does not end here. In the 16th century, the son of the author of the Giralda mounted a set of bells on the Tower (hence its resemblance to the Sevillian Tower). Two centuries later, it suffered the effects of the Lisbon earthquake and the tower began to be seriously deteriorated, so the minaret was covered and the façade was solidified to protect it, hiding the original minaret inside. For this reason, over the last 25 years the aim of the renovations of the Bell Tower of the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba has been to bring the visitor closer to its original heart.
So don’t miss out on the 25-year effort that will astound anyone who looks out from the highest views of the city.
To learn more about guided visits in Cordoba, click on the link down below:
- Guided Tours in Cordoba
- Guided Tour Alcazar of the Christian Monarchs
- Guided Tour Mosque-Cathedral
- Guided Tour Medina Azahara
- Guided Tour Patios of Cordoba
