The Historic City of Toledo has recorded on the Official World Heritage List within the "Cultural Assets" since 1986 because of its landscapes, its geographic setting, the embedding of the river, the Cigarrales orchards, las Vegas lowlands, the location of the migmatite (ancient metamorphic rocks) city, its viewpoints (La Granja, Virgen de Gracia, Santa Leocadia, San Cristóbal).
The city of Toledo is placed at the top of a granite headland that the river Tajo, with a deeply embedded riverbed, surrounds and isolates on the east, south and west sides, while to the north it joins the Castile plateau along the district of La Sagra. Its location is as original as Venice or Bruges.
In prehistory, there was a fall between the granitic rocks and clay and other soft layers which extend from the plain at the foot of the Guadarrama. The river dug the hard rock with an impressive cut. Thus was formed the rock squeezes and preserves the traditional city.
The city of Toledo, a Historic Heritage Site, is both a dynamic city, constantly growing university seat and capital of Castilla-La Mancha.
Known as the City of Three Cultures, Toledo is a meeting place for history and tradition.
Toledo is also the land of Don Quixote, a craft market and live a world leader in wine and gastronomy. Toledo Traverse dialog centuries feel underfoot leaving the fancy wrapping every corner, by a magical cityscape, scene of momentous pages of history and evocative of legendary names. Meet in Toledo you can enjoy something that very few cities in the world contain: a combination of fingerprint Christian, Islamic and Jewish performed by a monumental and unsurpassed natural surroundings.
In that spirit, the City wanted to prepare, develop, modernize its look and combine it with the past to get into a promising future ahead of services for conducting events and Convention Bureau with innovative and efficient, able to solve any need. A city ultimately perfect, waiting to be discovered ... Again.
Nowadays, Toledo preserves the image of a medieval city sheltered by city walls and fortified towers where different doors open to give access to its impressive historic quarter. From its main entrance, the Puerta de Bisagra to the Bridge of San Martín and the Bridge of Alcántara, at different locations, the historic area offers many places to visit and admire.
The solemn Cathedral, the hub that is the Zocodover Square and the imposing Alcázar (Castle) opposite the Tajo are just a few examples of the many monuments and historic buildings that the city is home to.
The mosques of Cristo de la Luz and Tornerías, the synagogues of Santa María la Blanca and Tránsito, the Monastery de San Juan de los Reyes, the Palace of Fuensalida, The Jesuit Church and the Santo Domingo and Santa Isabel convents...many buildings to see inside and out, which represent just a sample of the wealth of monuments that Toledo possesses.
Discovering Toledo is not just a case of visiting the streets and the impressive monuments inside the city. To immerse yourself more in its history and in its art, the city has many artistic and cultural possibilities, offering exhibition halls, art galleries and tours that you can improvise along the narrow streets, squares and spots. One of the possibilities that tourists usually take advantage of is to visit the traditional patios of Toledo houses and enjoy their beauty, above all during the fiestas and especially in the Fiesta Week of Corpus Christi (May/June), since the majority are decorated for the occasion. If you find a door open in the Historic Quarter, do not hesitate, enter, and enjoy the light and color.
Toledo City of Three Cultures
A throughout its long history, Toledo has always been known as a city of tolerance or the City of Three Cultures, with the coexistence of Jews, Muslims and Christians. The city was never a clearly divided by neighborhoods of each of the religions, but there are areas of greater influence of each.
Toledo Christian
Toledo was Christian since the fourth century, being part of the Roman Empire, it was during the Visigothic kingdom (struggling with the Arian doctrine) and spent the centuries of coexistence between the three religions, Muslim, Jewish and Catholic, to arrival of the Reconquista.
In the seventeenth century, then "city convent" had nearly seventy ecclesiastical buildings or related uses such as schools, hospices, hospitalitos, chapels.
The Oldest Established churches as Santa Justa and Rufina, were remodeled several times, according to the needs and tastes of their patrons. After the confiscations nineteenth century, many of these buildings started to have civilian uses, private or administrative.
Arabic Toledo
The urban structure of Toledo is Arab, with its narrow, winding streets, its houses whose roofs almost touch, but the windows never look ahead. Buildings that enclose public view your most precious jewels, the greenery-filled courtyards, tiled fountains. Of the dozen mosques that existed two left, the Cristo de la Luz, in the year 999 and the lathe, somewhat later.
The mosque was on the current site of the cathedral, but it seems that there was a remarkable building, only spacious to accommodate all the male inhabitants of the city. The area of the Alcázar and the current Museum of Santa Cruz with its area adjacent to the Puente de Alcántara, had walls that separated the citadel itself, its garrison and palaces, the rest of the city.
The southern suburbs, adjacent to the river, were occupied by the tanneries, dyeing and other water-related facilities. It is assumed that there built his legendary aquatic watch and calendar Azarquiel the great astronomer.
Alfonso VI doors or hinge Vieja, the Vado and Alcantara and Twelve Cantos have Arab structures. The wheel on the banks of the Tagus, in the park Safont is inheritance Muslim irrigation techniques. But above all, the most obvious legacy is omnipresent Moorish aesthetics in architecture and decoration with the use of brick, masonry, interlocking the various arches, the wooden ceilings and rich plasterwork, used for centuries in all types of buildings , including the cathedral.
Toledo Jewish
The only two synagogues still standing today induce call the neighborhood where they are, the Jewish Quarter, where there is the highest concentration of the Jewish population, but actually in the city came to be a total of ten synagogues scattered throughout his site.
Your limit would be the former parish of St. Martin in the vicinity of the Puerta del Cambron and the remains of defensive constructions above the Puente de San Martín, traditionally called the Castle of the Jews, in line almost straight up the street from Angel . Here we find the Jewish Gate XII century to the beginning of which there are remains of houses, ritual baths in their basements. Also the area of Commercial Street and the site occupied since the fourteenth century the cathedral cloister was known as the Jewish Quarter or Alcanáa.
Trade was one of the main activities of the Jews, who lived above their shops and workshops. It is not excluded that there were no Jews in Silver Street, were recognized as silversmiths, or any other part of the city.
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