For some reason, the Calleja de las Flores (“street of the flowers”) was a major tourist attraction in the city. A narrow passageway in the Jewish quarter of Cordoba lined on either side by pots of geraniums and carnations. What gives?

FUN FACT: What is often left out of the Muslim-Christian discussion of early Spanish history are the Jews. They have existed alongside and intermingled with their Abrahamic brothers and sisters for millennia. In fact, followers of the Judaic faith were also expelled during the Reconquista. Jewish people with roots in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) are known as Sephardic Jews (Sepharad, the Hebrew name for Iberia). They are less known and culturally distinct from the more prevalent Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. They speak a hybrid Spanish-Hebrew language known as Ladino and their synagogues and cuisine contain strong Islamic influences.

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