Claudio Marcelo Street, where the temple is located, was designed at the end of the 19th century to connect the neighborhoods outside the walls with the historic city center. At the time, Cordoba was still the provincial city it had been since the end of the 17th century -- a large town with agrarian roots through which the industrial revolution had not yet passed.The city had to wait until the end of the post-civil war Franco era and the arrival of democracy to become a truly modern city, a process in which the communist party’s Julio Anguita was crucial. With the promotion of a railroad station and the declaration of the Mosque-Cathedral as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, Cordoba was back on the map, and Anguita became one of the most respected governors in its history. His exploits in returning Cordoba to its former glory and his politics even earned him the nickname "the Red Caliph"!