Cordoba's mosque, known as the Mezquita, situated in Spain’s southern region of Andalusia was the holiest site of Muslim worship in the West during the Umayyad caliphate of the 10th and 11th centuries.

Regarded as one of the finest monuments of Moorish architecture, the mosque-cathedral is the most visited site in this town. But since it reopened at the end of May, only 16,000 people have set foot in the Unesco World Heritage site — the number of visitors it would normally receive in a week.

The Santos Bar, across from the celebrated mosque, would normally be groaning with tourists tucking into its trademark Spanish tortillas. But with the coronavirus pandemic, “everything’s dead”, the owner says.

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