{"id":328909,"date":"2025-08-08T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328909\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:43:09","slug":"fire-breaks-out-at-cordobas-ancient-mosque-turned-cathedral-la-mezquita-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328909\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out at C\u00f3rdoba\u2019s ancient mosque-turned-cathedral La Mezquita | Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A fire has broken out in the historic mosque-turned-cathedral of the Spanish city of C\u00f3rdoba. Videos online show flames and smoke coming from inside the major tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Firefighters deployed to La Mezquita-Catedral on Friday evening later said the blaze was \u201cunder control\u201d but it had not been extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Local media reported the blaze broke out when a mechanical sweeping machine caught fire in one of the chapels at about 9pm, and then spread to the roof. The extent of the damage was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Considered a jewel of Islamic architecture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/dec\/05\/cordoba-mosque-cathedral-name-change-row-andalusia\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the site was built as a mosque \u2013 on the site of an earlier church<\/a> \u2013 between the 8th and 10th centuries by the southern city\u2019s then Muslim ruler, Abd al-Rahman, an emir of the Umayyad dynasty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">After Christians reconquered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/spain\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a> in the 13th century under King Ferdinand III of Castile, it was converted into a cathedral and architectural alterations were made over following centuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Unesco-listed heritage site received two million visitors in 2024, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More details soon\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire has broken out in the historic mosque-turned-cathedral of the Spanish city of C\u00f3rdoba. Videos online show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-328909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114995331211422407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}