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Travellers in Toledo: from Bécquer to Buñuel
In Zocodover, Buñuel, Dalí and the Order of Toledo; at the Arco de la Sangre, the museum city and an inn linked to Cervantes without any proof.
Art and letters in Toledo: audio walks
What did painters and writers do in Toledo, and what did Toledo do with their memory?
5 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
Explore these walksToledo has been both a lived city and a city imagined by painters and writers. These art and literary walks put the two alongside each other: places people knew and the image later associated with them. Works, lives and remembrance show what each creator took from Toledo and how the city chose to remember them.
In “Trades and Daily Life in Toledo”: Lázaro and the old papers of the Alcaná connect Toledo's trades with literary ways of describing the city.
In “Travellers in Toledo”: In Zocodover, Buñuel, Dalí and the Order of Toledo; at the Arco de la Sangre, the museum city and an inn linked to Cervantes without any proof.
In “Mosques, Mozarabs and Mudejars”: The walk begins at the Miradero, where the palaces of al-Mamun once stood, along with the guest he took in in 1072, who came back with an army.
Choose from 5 independent walks in Toledo. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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Mosques, Mozarabs and Mudejars of Toledo
The walk begins at the Miradero, where the palaces of al-Mamun once stood, along with the guest he took in in 1072, who came back with an army.
El Greco's Life in Toledo
It ends at the Tránsito viewpoint, looking out over the view in which he painted a hospital on a cloud.
Legends of Toledo in the Half-Light
It begins with the Christ of the Skull and the jewel stolen from the cathedral's Virgin, goes down to the well of tears and comes back to the cathedral for the stone the Virgin stepped on and, beside the archbishop's palace arch, the rebel bishop who was sat in the archbishop's chair.
Trades and Daily Life in Toledo
Lázaro and the old papers of the Alcaná connect Toledo's trades with literary ways of describing the city.
Toledo, before you go
Toledo fits into a walk, though rarely a straight line. Good soles and a plan by area do more for the trip than an endless list of monuments.
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