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- During the Al-Andalus period, Córdoba, Spain was known for its many crafts, including leather goods, gold and silverwork, textiles, glass mosaics that decorate The Great Umayyad Mosque of Córdoba, and delectable dishes of Arabic and North-African influence using local Iberian ingredients. 

- Cordoba leather, also called guadamecies are leather pieces that are embossed, modeled, and colored with modern or classical designs. Cordoban leather has been made since medieval times to decorate chests, trunks, screens, cases, books, luxury shoes, and gloves and was traditionally gilt and thin enough to be embossed. This type of craft came from a technique mastered by the city of Ghadames in Libya (hence the name guadamacies), which had made it its specialty for a long time, and which was imported by the Moors under the Caliphate of Cordoba.

- Marzipan's geographical origin has been debated. Thought to have originated in Persia and introduced into Europe via the Turks, another possible geographic origin is Medieval Spain, part of which was then under Muslim control, known as Al-Andalus. Marzipan became an art form there, made possible by the Arab introduction of sugar to the Iberian Peninsula, combined with almond trees so plentiful that the Andalusian hills looked as if they were covered in snow when they bloomed.

- The three main religious groups in Al-Andalus, or Moorish Spain, were Christians, Jews, and Muslims, who coexisted for over seven centuries. Their interactions led to the creation of a unique culture expressed in the arts, craft and philosophy.

- In Medieval Spain, combining Arabic, Hebrew and Christian heritage, a sweet paste of almond, orange blossom and sugar was developed, giving birth to marzipan. Legend has it that it was the nuns of the convent who invented the marzipan, when the city was besieged by the Arabs and there was great need for food so with almond and sugar crushed with a mace they made a "mace bread".