Parador de Oropesa Toledo
Plaza Palacio, 1, Oropesa Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, 45560, Spain and Canary Islands
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The home of El Greco
... the end of the exterior wall. It also was an enclosed “island” which had amazing gold-leafed wooden carvings of the life of Jesus on the free-standing wall visible behind the priest. Equally unusual was that the wall also had amazing decorations on the backside which were visible as one walked the cathedral's perimeter. The rest of the interior was lined with numerous ornate chapels, each purchased and decorated by the ...
Holy Hot Toledo!
... against huge ancient buildings, a light show accompanied by music was presented. Works of El Greco and other Spanish masters were shown against the buildings. At the spectacular Cathedral in the center of town, the church was illuminated with different colors as a choir sang. Magical. Like a fairy tale town. My pictures do not do it justice - each show was about an hour long and I was able ...
Bonitas Ojos
This writing comes from a somewhat comfortable, fancy bed in Sevilla, Spain. It's been a long day, ladies and gents. Here we go, from the beginning.
Obviously, we started with breakfast at the hotel. It was a rather random assortment of good foods, mostly what I was expecting of Europe. Cold cuts, juice, caffe, fruit, eggs, and some other yummy food like their fantastic fresh bread. Afterwards, we all got ready to tour Toledo, which ...
Toledo and Home
... br> The lights had been brought up in the church, making the lovely paintings much easier to see than they had been on our visit the day before, and making the gold and silver around the altar scintillate beautifully. The purple robes of the celebrants, the swinging censer, the incongruous eyewear of the priests (who should never wear glasses, in my indefensible opinion), the insuperable language barrier, the creepily anthropophagous wafer-chewing – it all took me right back ...
Day trip to Toledo
... lanes back to Zocódovar. The Military Museum is still open and there is now no queue. The museum is housed in the Alcazar sited at the summit of the hill on which the city is built. There have been forts on this spot since Roman times. It was almost destroyed during the Spanish Civil War and became an icon of Nationalist resistance. Visiting military museums is not ...



