Even today, the modern campus with its rose gardens and stunning Arabic mosque exists within a warren of medieval lanes in an island of seclusion.
The inner heart of La Seu remains unchanged, with a Romanesque cathedral surrounded by a tangle of medieval lanes.
It has more narrow, winding, medieval lanes and romantic, hidden plazas soaked in the scent of orange blossom than half of Andalucía's other cities put together.
In the maze of medieval lanes, tiled bars still serve vermut de grifo, or draught vermouth.
For aesthetes and amateurs alike, the city's wide 19th-century boulevards and crooked medieval lanes will unfold myriad surprises, backlit by the moon and streetlamps.
In addition to the main sites, the tour includes some of the medieval lanes where pilgrims' "inns and weavers" houses still stand.
Milton's Walk was a medieval lane, called "Christes Colledge Walke" in 1574.
From here a narrow medieval lane, the so-called "Kalkarstiege," leads to "Bütkamp."
Local Attractions: Hillside Lewes has a ruined castle, a traditional brewery, a Georgian high street and medieval lanes called twittens.
In Buda, the once aristocratic old capital on the west side, bicycles navigated near-desolate cobbled medieval lanes.