Toledo

[ Mar.2014 ] In the map of Toledo, Spain, you can see a castle on the east side of the Tagus River. So we decided to visit there. From the river, we walked up the…

[ Mar.2014 ] Toledo in Spain is on a hill which is surrounded three side by Tajo River. Across the river in the south side, there is another hill and from there, you can see…

[ Mar.2014 ] The last place we visited on the day when we walked the walking course in Toledo, Spain was El Greco museum. This place used to be known as the house of El…

[ Mar.2014 ] The south west part of Toledo in Spain was former Jewish Quater. In the past, there were 11 synagogues, but now there seemed only two left. We went in one of them…

[ Mar.2014 ] There are a lot of ceramics shops in Toledo in Spain, too. In the shop we just happened to enter, only a young man was there, and he was playing the Spanish…

[ Mar.2014 ] Toledo in Spain is the place where the Greek painter, El Greco lived and there are a lot of his paintings. In Iglesia de Santo Tome, there is the famous “The Burial…

[ Mar.2014 ] Within Toledo Cathedral in Spain, there is an art gallery. The most important painting there is El Greco’s “El Expolio” located at the front. The red robe was vivid. This painting was…

[ Mar.2014 ] There is a room called Chapter Chamber at the end of the cathedral of Toledo, Spain. Here there were a row of the portraits of successive archbishops. Of course the earliest ones…

[ Mar. 2014 ] I have visited many churches in various places, but this cathedral in Toledo in Spain was the most gorgeous one so far. The guidebook I bought …