page_title: Córdoba, Spain
section_title: Fernandine churches
hierarchical_section_title: Córdoba, Spain / Architecture / Christian / Fernandine churches
caption_attribution_description: Iglesia de Santa Marina, en Córdoba (España).
context_page_description: Córdoba, also spelled Cordova in English, is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. It is the largest city in the province, 3rd largest in Andalusia, after Sevilla and Málaga, and the 12th largest in Spain. It was a Roman settlement, taken over by the Visigoths, followed by the Muslim conquests in the eighth century and later becoming the capital of the Caliphate of Córdoba. The city served as the capital in exile of the Umayyad Caliphate and various other emirates. During these Muslim periods, Córdoba was transformed into a world leading center of education and learning, producing notable figures such as Averroes, Ibn Hazm, and Al-Zahrawi, and by the 10th century it had grown to be the second-largest city in Europe. It was conquered by the Kingdom of Castile through the Christian Reconquista in 1236.
  Today, Córdoba is still home to many notable pieces of Moorish architecture such as The Mezquita-Catedral, which was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984 and is now a cathedral. The UNESCO status has since been expanded to encompass the whole historic centre of Córdoba.
context_section_description: The city is home to 12 Christian churches that were built (many as transformations of mosques) by Ferdinand III of Castile after the reconquest of the city in the 13th century. They were to act both as churches and as the administrative centres in the neighborhoods into which the city was divided in medieval times. Some of those that remain are:
  San Nicolás de la Villa.
  San Miguel.
  San Juan y Todos los Santos (also known as Iglesia de la Trinidad).
  Santa Marina de Aguas Santas.
  San Agustín. Begun in 1328, it has now an 18th-century appearance. The façade bell tower, with four bells, dates to the 16th century.
  San Andrés, largely renovated in the 14th and 15th centuries. It has a Renaissance portal (1489) and a bell tower from the same period, while the high altar is a Baroque work by Pedro Duque Cornejo.
  San Lorenzo.
  Church of  Santiago.
  San Pedro.
  Santa María Magdalena. Like the others, it combines Romanesque, Mudéjar and Gothic elements.
  San Pablo. In the church's garden in the 1990s the ruins of an ancient Roman circus were discovered.
caption: Iglesia de Santa Marina de Aguas Santas, built in the 13th century.
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