A visit to Cordoba

Not nearly as colonial as the guidebooks make it out to be, the 200.000 students who are based in Cordoba make for a very pleasant and reasonably priced city, with a host of lovely bits and bobs spread out over the city.

Nearby, several smaller villages have their own colonial histories, much of which, though not all, has been supplanted by modernity.

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