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Few buildings embody the layered history of Spain as completely as the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, a monument in which a Christian cathedral sits within one of the greatest mosques ever built. Begun in 785 under Abd al-Rahman I on a site that had held a Visigothic church, the original mosque was enlarged repeatedly over two centuries until it became an immense hall of prayer. Its most famous feature is the forest of more than eight hundred columns of jasper, marble and granite supporting double...