SPAIN

This beautiful cover came from Spain and depicts a miniature sheet issued in 2010 celebrating the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba. The historic centre of Córdoba is one of the largest of its kind in Europe. In 1984, UNESCO registered the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba as a World Heritage Site. A decade later, it expanded the inscription to include much of the old town. The historic centre has a wealth of monuments preserving large traces of Roman, Arabic, and Christian times.

SPAIN

A nice UNESCO cover from Spain, celebrating 3 stamps with Unesco sites: Salamanca, Alhambra in Granada and Cordoba Mosque. The site is inscribed at UNESCO's historical sites since 1984.

The Alhambra in Granada (middle stamp) is a fortress and former rural residence of the emirs who ruled this part of Spain in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The Historic Centre of Cordoba (right stamp) is also inscribed at UNESCO's historical sites since 1984. Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces and public buildings were built to rival the splendours of Constantinople, Damascus and Baghdad. In the 13th century, under Ferdinand III, Cordoba's Great Mosque was turned into a cathedral.

The old town of Salamaca (stamp on the left) is inscribed at UNESCO since 1988 and it has important Romanesque, Gothic, Moorsih, Renaissance and Baroque Monuments. The Plaza Mayor, with its galleries and arcades, is particularly impressive.