Mayoral Toledo
Av. Castilla La Mancha, 3 Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, 45003, Spain and Canary Islands
Travel Blogs Nearby
The home of El Greco
... El Greco left his native Crete and settled in Toledo. Our guidebook advised that the hop-on-hop-off bus trip was only slightly more expensive than the city bus from the train station to the main plaza (Plaza de Zocodover), so we hopped on. Like many other cities in the south of Spain, Toledo has a big cathedral and an Alcázar (or palace). Our route took us along the Rio Tajo for some great vistas before entering the city gates ...
Holy Hot Toledo!
... a cheaper alternative to a rather pricey town.
Most people, and now that it is high high season, come to Toledo from Madrid, just for the day. Scads of tour buses disengorge in the morning, spewing out frantic tourists into the twisty and turny tiny ancient streets. They run from museum to museum, and there are many (maybe 20 sites), checking off the El Greco paintings, ...
Doña Quixota of la Mancha, Toledo Spain
... br> Cathedral (Amazing choir)
Local artisans working with gold
Church of Santo Tomé and Museum of “El Greco” where his most famous painting resides: “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz”
Museum Sefardi
Synagogue “Sta. Maria la Blanca”
Monastery San Juan de los Reyes
Cambron Gate
Bisagra Gate
Del Sol Gate
Alfonso VI Gate
Alcantara ...
Toledo and Home
... experience of showing up early for a pilgrim’s mass at Santiago and learning that she wasn’t early enough; a woman she knew who had gotten a good seat said she had arrived with an hour and a half to spare. We were determined to get into this concert, so we left the Hotel Isabel shortly after 6:00 for a concert that was due to start at the Iglesia de Santo Tomé at 7:30. When we arrived at the church it was deserted except for a few smokers in tuxedos who were standing at ...
Day trip to Toledo
... It’s only a dummy of course, but he is surrounded by swords, lances, daggers and knives. Sword-making was once the key industry of the city and Toledo steel was renown throughout Europe.
The cathedral is crammed into the cityscape and cannot be seen form afar like St. Peter’s in Rome or Notre Dame in Paris, yet it is the third largest ...



