Isabel Ambrosio

María Isabel Ambrosio Palos (born 18 July 1970)[1] is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician who was the mayor of Córdoba from 2015 to 2019.

[5] As mayor, Ambrosio proposed that the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, a building of which most of its architecture is of a mosque but has been used exclusively as a cathedral since 1236, be made public property.

[6] Ambrosio brought together a committee of legal and historical experts who concluded that the building was never relinquished by the Spanish crown, and therefore the state.

[8] Ambrosio's conservative successor, José María Bellido, shut down the commission and sought to repair relations with the church.

[9] Citing the Law of Historical Memory, Ambrosio renamed two main streets in Córdoba that bore names of figures from the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, one of whom also served under Francisco Franco.