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Toledo is known for its swords...at least to me until I actually stepped into the city of Toledo.
We once again passed the Sierra Morena, Olive trees and found ourselves in the Castle region. Literally, there were castles everywhere...
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View of Toledo
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View of Toledo
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We got a nice view of all of Toledo, surrounded in 3 sides by river and one by mountain, from the top of the mountain.
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View of Toledo
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Toledo is city without frills. It had once been the center of Spain so to speak, but now a small city. It once boasted of having all 3 religious groups living in harmony.
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Cathedral in Toledo is also very important...
Although...it seems that every cathedral in every city is important.
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Cathedral
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Cathedral
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We saw very beautiful surviving fresco and headed to see the ever famous fresco of El Greco. I had no idea I would become to like him...but I do now.
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We saw some examples of beautiful Toledo gold inlaid swords in the shops...also the Damacene jewelry. I tried very hard to resist the temptation to purchase one.
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Cathedral
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Narrow streets
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Toledo probably had the narrowest streets of all the cities we visited in Spain.
It also had the most beautiful bridges across the rivers.
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