A massive fire has broken out at the iconic Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba in Spain, but firefighters got the blaze under control in around an hour.

A fire broke out in the historic mosque-turned-cathedral in Cordoba on Friday but the monument was saved as firefighters quickly contained and then extinguished it, the Spanish city's mayor said.

A fire at a historic mosque-turned-cathedral in Cordoba in southern Spain caused only "very localised damage," the city's mayor said Saturday as the site reopened to the public."There is some damage,