The Three Dates (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
” The Three Dates” is not properly a legend. Even so, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer defined in this story published in 1862 the magic that encloses most of the streets of the city, and in which …
Juanelo Turriano and his “artifice”.
He died in absolute destitution, accused by the Inquisition and with enormous debts… It could be the description of any resident of Toledo during the Renaissance, but in this case we are talking about one …
Intense archaeological activity in Toledo.
The probable discovery of the remains of the ancient city of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo, the urbanization of the area in which they are located (Vega Baja) and the works in the subsoil Toledano …
” The Master Key”
” The greatest enigma of all time.” In “La llave maestra“, Agustín Sánchez Vidal, professor of Art History at the University of Zaragoza, discovers the deepest part of “Antigua”. “Antigua” is the name given to …
“Signum”, a novel about 15th-century Toledo.
” Signum” is the first novel by José Guadalajara, a prestigious researcher of the myth of the Antichrist in the Middle Ages. Set in 15th century Toledo, when the coming of the Antichrist and the …
Sepharad: The Jews in Toledo, history and legend
” Toledo, city of the three cultures”, we have all heard that we have ever been in this millenary city. One of these cultures, which reached the Toledan walls in its diaspora, is the Jewish …
Hell’s Alley
What legend is hidden in Toledo’s Callejón del Infierno? There are many legends that make Jews fall in love with Christians or Muslims and vice versa in Toledo and relate more or less successfully to …
Juana I of Castilla “La Loca”
Update February 2009: after this consultation, we offer the book already finished and for sale in Spain, thanks for the information to its author, Yolanda: Click here for more information, description, etc.
Greco-Toledana Legend
Julio Contreras sends us a magnificently written article that we could consider between the legend and the history of one of our most universal painters, closely related to the city of Toledo: El Greco. Magisterially …
UNDERGROUND TOLEDO: Introduction
Of all the curiosities, mysteries and stories that have been told by word of mouth for centuries, those related to the Toledan subways are the most proliferating among those who really want to know the …
The Toledano Labyrinth
The popular fantasy says that the fabulous subways of Toledo communicate with each other and will give, some to the river, and others, much further, to other caves or subways several kilometers from the city. …
The Enchanted Houses of Toledo
There are several houses in Toledo whose mysterious basements are enveloped in the halo of evil. In some are hidden fabulous treasures and riches; in others, like the house of the Chains, a Jew forges …
Roman Toledo
Rome and Toledo have many similarities. As a city, they sit on seven hills; they are furrowed by a river that endows them with a marked character, and for millennia they have housed very important …
La Ajorca de Oro, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
She was beautiful, beautiful with that beauty that inspires vertigo, beautiful with that beauty that is nothing like the one we dream of in angels and yet is supernatural; diabolical beauty, which perhaps the devil …