Seated in a small square in Córdoba's old Jewish quarter, the Estatua de Maimónides honours one of the most remarkable thinkers of the medieval world. Moshe ben Maimón. Known in Spain as Maimónides, he was born in Córdoba in 1138, but his story quickly became one of exile.

When he was ten, the Almohads, a Berber dynasty from North Africa, conquered the city and forced its Jews and Christians to convert or leave. His family fled through Al-Andalus, Morocco and Israel before settling in Egypt, where Maimónides became personal doctor to Sultan Saladin.

His bronze shoes are polished to a high shine: local tradition holds that touching them transfers a fraction of his knowledge.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the statue to trace Maimónides' journey from Córdoba's Jewish quarter through exile to the courts of Cairo. They connect his life to the wider story of convivencia and its violent end in Al-Andalus.