Tuesday, October 6, 2009

TOLEDO


Toledo is a small city from Spain, it only have 60.000 people and is the city where I born. Thousand of tourist visit my city every years.
Toledo is very close to Madrid (40 milles), and most of people that go to Madrid visit my city.
In Toledo there are more than 40 hotels and hostels where you can rest, since cheap hostel for the young people, until 5 star hotels for the rich people.

One of the most famous monument is the cathedral, it have one tower and seven doors, and very few days you can see the custody of gold. It was built 1000 years ago, and they were building for more than 200 years.

Other fabolous monument is "el alcazar" it was completely destroyed two times. The first It was destroyed in the 18th century during the War of Succession, After in 1939, in the civil war of Spain, but now it is completely reformed. When you go to "el alcazar" you have to listen the true history about the general Moscardo, and how his soon gave his life for Spain.


Other incredible monument is "San Juan de los Reyes" an old church that is located in the east of the mountain. The most important thing that you can visit in this church it's the pictores of the famoust artist "El Greco". The other pictores are located in Greco's museum, very close to "San Juan de los Reyes"





The city center is "La Plaza de Zocodover" it is the middle of the city and 600 years ago was the center of the world, where the kings met. Nowdays, it is a calm square where the people can walk or drink in itss hige variety of bars.

The most importan fest in Toledo is "el corpus". Thousand of people came to my city to see procession and enjoy eating the local gastronomy. During this week, the monuments of the city are opened in the night, an local and foreing people go to see them. Also the people can see the famous bullfigthers.



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