Located in the Prince`s Garden and named after the building previously on the site, the Labourer`s Cottage is a small palace built for Carlos 1V....

Situated beside the River Tajo, the Prince`s Garden is a large park with monumental gateways. Landscaped by Boutelou in the 1760s for the future king,...

To the east of the Royal Palace is the Parterre Garden, a formal garden designed by Frenchman Esteban Boutelou in the mid 18th Century. In...

The Royal Palace`s origins date back to the 16th Century when a palace was built for Felipe 11. The present structure of brick and white...

Beside the River Tajo, in a corner of the park, is a building next to the old landing stage. Known as the Casa de Marinas,...

At the highest part of the city stands the fortified palace Alcazar, built by Carlos 1 on the site of a 10th Century Moorish fortress....

The Puente de Alcantara stands outside the city walls and below the cliffs of the Alcazar. Spanning the River Tajo, the bridge was originally built...

The Mezquita de las Tornerias is a former mosque that was built in the 11th Century. Since then it has been renovated. On the ground...

The Poseda de la Hermandad is an interesting building that used to be a prison. It was built in the 15th Century during the reign...

Built on the site of an earlier church, Toledo`s splendid, huge cathedral took almost three hundred years to build, and is a mixture of styles....

The Museo de Santa Cruz is housed in a 16th Century Renaissance hospital that has a splendid Plateresque facade. Other interesting features are the cloister...

The busy, triangular Plaza de Zocodover is the city`s main square. A weekly, traditional market was held here from the mid 15th Century to the...

The Taller del Moro is a beautiful, Mudejar palace. It was used as a workshop by masons who were working on the marble for the...

The main attraction of the Church of Santo Tome is El Greco`s masterpiece The Burial of the Count of Orgaz. The Count, who died in...

The El Greco House and Museum contains many important works of El Greco, who is thought to have lived in a house similar to this...

The Church of Cristo de la Luz is a mosque built over 1,000 years ago on the ruins of a Visigothic church. It was later...

The Synagogue del Transito appears to be a plain building, but inside it has a splendid, ornate Mudejar ceiling which is considered the finest in...

This museum is housed in the Visigothic Church of San Roman. It is a 13th Century Mudejar church with a tower and three aisles divided...

The Puerto del Sol is one of the well known gates in the walls that surrounded the city of Toledo. The gate is in the...

The Synagogue of Santa Maria dates from the 12th Century and inside are beautiful, white horseshoe arches with intricate carved capitals. After a massacre of...