Soak up the winter sun in Cordoba

HISTORIC The mosque-cathedral

- BY NATALIE KING

BANISH the winter blues and head to one of Europe's sunniest cities just three hours from the UK.

Córdoba in southern Spain is about an hour's train ride from either Malaga or Seville, set in the mountainous and historic region of Andalusia. It was named one of the sunniest cities by Holidu, who reported it gets a whopping 268.2 hours of sunshine on average each month, with temperatures around 15-19C in the winter.