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Landmark Attractions In Toledo

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Toledo is a city and municipality located in central Spain; it is the capital of the province of Toledo and the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Toledo was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive monumental and cultural heritage. Toledo is known as the Imperial City for having been the main venue of the court of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and as the City of the Three Cultures for the cultural influences of Christians, Muslims and Jews reflected in its history. It was also the capital from 542 to 725 AD of the ancient Visigothic kingdom, which followed the fall of the Roman Empire, and the location of historic ...
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Landmark Attractions In Toledo

  • 2. Puerta de Bisagra Toledo
    The Puerta de Bisagra is a city gate of Toledo, Spain. The structure was constructed in the 10th century, in the time of the Moorish Taifa of Toledo in Islamic Al-Andalus. It is also called 'Bisagra Antigua' to distinguish it from the Puerta de Bisagra Nueva which was built in 1559. The gate was the main entrance to the city and dates from the Moorish period.
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  • 3. Jewish Quarter Toledo
    The Jewish quarter of Toledo is a district of the city of Toledo, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It was the neighborhood in which the Jews lived in the Middle Ages, although they were not obliged to live within it. It is the Jewish community of Toledo which became, in the 12th and 13th centuries, the most populous and rich of the Kingdom of Castile. And coexists for centuries, more or less peacefully, with Muslims and Christians, in which it would be called city of the three cultures.
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  • 9. San Jose Chapel Toledo
    José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras , known simply as José de San Martín or El Libertador of Argentina, Chile and Peru, was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire who served as the Protector of Peru. Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes, in modern-day Argentina, he left his mother country at the early age of seven to study in Málaga, Spain. In 1808, after taking part in the Peninsular War against France, San Martín contacted South American supporters of independence from Spain. In 1812, he set sail for Buenos Aires and offered his services to the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, present-day Argentina. After the Battle of San Lorenzo and time commanding the Army of ...
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  • 12. Convento de San Clemente Toledo
    The Convento de San Clemente is a Renaissance convent located in the city of Toledo, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It was founded in the 13th century during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile the Wise. Inside the building there are a Roman cistern, Mudéjar architecture, remains of the Palacio de los Cervatos and many decorative elements. It was rebuilt by Alonso de Covarrubias, and a cloister by José Ortega. It is a large building that contains a basements, a refectory, two cloisters, a chapter house, a church, a hallway, the nuns' choir, the portals, cisterns and other dependences.It currently houses a museum dedicated to the marzipan that, according to a historic study and tradition, originated in this convent.
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  • 13. Plaza de Toros de Toledo. Toledo
    The Plaza Mayor or Plaza de Armas of Lima, is the birthplace of the city of Lima, as well as the core of the city. Located in the Historic Centre of Lima, it is surrounded by the Government Palace, Cathedral of Lima, Archbishop's Palace of Lima, the Municipal Palace, and the Palace of the Union.
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  • 14. Convento de Santo Domingo el Real Toledo
    The Convento de Santa Clara la Real is a convent of the Poor Clares located in the city of Toledo . The present convent was founded in the middle of the 14th century by the Toledan lady María Meléndez, and is located near other monasteries like the monastery of Santo Domingo el Real and the one of the Convent of Capuchins of Toledo. At the beginning of the 13th century, the kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula - Aragon , Castile , Portugal and Navarre - prepared the so-called Western Crusade in which, in addition, Franks and Bretons took part. People and lands of the Spanish kingdoms lived the full conquest, which determined in the peninsula a special religious spirituality.The first missionary journey from Saint Francis to the Peninsula, as a result of many Franciscan foundations throughou...
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