San Bartolomé, Córdoba

[1] Located on the Calle Averroes in today's Faculty of Arts building, the relatively unknown chapel is one of the city's most notable monuments.

With the development of the Alcázar Viejo district in 1391 and the later expulsion of the Jews from La Judería, the parish of San Bartolomé was established while a church of the same name was constructed between 1399 and 1410.

There are two doors, one through a porch opening into a courtyard on Calle Averroes, the second, strangely locked from the outside, providing access into a side chapel which may have been connected to a sacristy in another building.

Two small columns bearing Islamic decorations with scrolls and leaves support the elegantly rib-vaulted ceiling.

The coats of arms belong to the Knights of the Band, an order created by King Alfonso XI.