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  • Carmela71
  • Updated By Carmela71 on May 25, 2004
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  • While walking along this little streets, you will be safe, as there are lots of tourist (at least during the day, I had never been at night)

    Just be careful of the gypsies around trying to sell you Rosemary and trying to read the future on your hands....

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    Torre De La Calahorra
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  • jamiesno
  • By jamiesno on August 11, 2004
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  • Steps Going Down the Torre De La Calahorra - Córdoba
    Steps Going Down the Torre De
    La Calahorra
    by jamiesno
    This is really not a serious danger but I thought I would add it to my tips. When you are visiting the Torre De La Calahorra the steps are narrow, a little step and winding.

    So just be careful, don't rush and enjoy the amazing views when you get to the top!

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    Accomodation in May
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  • Carmela71
  • Updated By Carmela71 on May 25, 2004
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  • Unbelievable. We try to get accommodation during the festival of the Patios, with no luck at all!

    Prices of hostels up to 100 Euros

    hotels that normally you can get for 50 Euros, were up to 175 Euros!

    So if you plan going on May book in advance a few months before! do not leave it for last minute

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    No Quiero Rosemary, Por Favor
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  • karenincalifornia
  • By karenincalifornia on August 8, 2007
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  • Outside the Mezquita, Cordoba, Spain - Córdoba
    Outside the Mezquita, Cordoba,
    Spain
    by karenincalifornia
    Avoid anyone bearing rosemary like the plague. We got taken to the cleaners by a rosemary bearing gypsy in Granada, and we were not about to let this happen a second time. We saw the gypsies hanging around outside La Mezquita, too, pestering unsuspecting tourists. Just give them a very wide berth, and don't turn your back on your teenagers.

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    Muy Calor
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  • karenincalifornia
  • Updated By karenincalifornia on August 11, 2007
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  • Trying to deal with the heat in Cordoba, Spain - Córdoba
    Trying to deal with the heat
    in Cordoba, Spain
    by karenincalifornia
    We were warned that Cordoba gets very hot in July. Yes, it is very hot, but we went anyway. We're glad we did. We had no choice, other than to miss it, and we didn't want to do that. Cordoba is worth seeing, even if temps get up to 104 degree F. By late afternoon, we just had to slow down our pace. Our trouble was, we had no place really to go. Thinking air conditioning, we looked for places that might have this, but didn't have a whole bunch of luck. We couldn't find the movie theatre that was mentioned in the guidebooks. El Corte Ingles was air conditioned, which was nice, but there is only so much time I can stand to spend in El Corte Ingles.

    Paintings had to be kept in a climate controlled environment, so I suggested the Cordoba Museum of Fines Arts. No one wanted to do an activity that required standing on two feet. That meant the Jewish Synagogue, which we couldn't find earlier, but now knew where it was, was also out of the question.

    Trying to get creative, I suggested one of those horse drawn carriages, but my son adamantly vetoed this as being too touristy. Never mind that he carries a camera around and is easy prey for the rosemary bearing gypsies. I tell you, it is very tough work being an activity coordinator.

    For lack of any better ideas, we sat in the park on Doctor Fleming Street for 45 minutes until dinner and counted the number of empty taxis we saw drive by. (This was obsessive-compulsive behavior to assure ourselves - no just me, really - that we wouldn't have a problem getting to the train station on time after dinner.) Maybe we could have gotten off our behinds, but we were just too darn hot and tired to even move.

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    Attacked in the Jewish quarter!!
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  • ncoutroulis
  • By ncoutroulis on October 21, 2003
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  • Jewish quarter Cordoba - Córdoba
    Jewish quarter Cordoba
    by ncoutroulis
    This is the kind of thing that could really happen anywhere. But it happened in Cordoba. My friend and I were walking home after dinner one evening, near the Jewish quarter, when we were followed by some street toughs. They gave chase, and attacked us with broken bottles, and bricks. It was very scary. We made it out alive, but we we're both cut up from the bottles. They apparantly wanted my friends Rolex. That's a lesson to never forget. you need to watch yourself at night on these dark little streets.

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    The Gypsy
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  • By GentleSpirit on September 14, 2007
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  • You will see the gypsies near most of the major tourist attractions in most of the major cities in Spain. An older lady will offer an herb , it is NOT FREE! Easier to say "no, gracias" and just get on with whatever you were doing.

    Likewise, an incident i witnessed in Cordoba. A young man offers to play music for the unsuspecting tourists. he was well dressed. the tourists didnt say no, the young man sat down and played his accordion for a while and became rather upset when the tourists refused to pay him.

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    Getting around the historic section of town
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  • By GentleSpirit on September 14, 2007
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    Remember that Cordoba has been around since roman times. Its steets were not designed for cars and SUV's, rather for horses and carriages. On some streets you will only be able to fit 4 people across and its not uncommon to see people scurry when a car comes.

    The historic section of town is best described as a labyrinthine. I found it easier to walk along the wide avenue (relatively speaking) along the river and cut up into the area by the mezquita rather than try to find my way through a maze of narrow streets and passageways. It is very easy to get lost here!

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    Do not come in summer time
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  • Carmela71
  • Updated By Carmela71 on May 25, 2004
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  • Unless you want feel 45 C degrees or more (that is on the shadow) ...

    I had been once in July and August and I promised myself never to come again on that time!

    Well it is called the frying pan of Andalucia, now you know why!

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    Shops around the cathedral
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  • arlequin_g
  • Updated By arlequin_g on August 4, 2003
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  • Córdoba Warnings or Dangers
    by arlequin_g
    I found the bars around the cathedral really expensive. If you want a bottle of water, an ice cream, etc... wait a little and buy in in other street.

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