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Córdoba Mosque, Spain, 1998

"Proud as an aged warrior, the ornate face of Córdoba's Mezquita hints at a life of past glory. Completed by the ruler al-Mansur in A.D. 994, this monument of marble and stone was western Islam's greatest mosque."

—From "Tale of Three Cities," August 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Stuart Franklin