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 …
Brief Biography of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Originally from Seville, Spain, Bécquer was born on February 17, 1836. His father was a famous Sevillian painter who left Adolfo orphaned at the age of five… Gustav Adolf Becquer (1836-1870) Portrait of Gustavo Adolfo …
The Passion Rose, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
One summer afternoon, in a garden in Toledo, I was told this singular story by a very good and very pretty girl. As she explained to me the mystery of her special form, she kissed …
The Christ of the Skull, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
The king of Castile marched to the Moorish war, and to fight with the enemies of religion had appealed in war to all the most flowery of the nobility of their kingdoms. The king of …
The Table of Solomon and Toledo
This is a unique object for its symbolic and material value that the Arabs found in the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom in the early days of the conquest and the Muslim chronicles unanimously called …
The Penance of Bishop Acuña
1521. The Comuneros are defeated and persecuted throughout Castile. An affront to the Cathedral of Toledo unleashes one of the most terrifying legends of the city… ” The Penance of Bishop Acuña” A Legend from …
A night in Toledo or “The day of the moat”
On the current Paseo de San Cristóbal, one of the darkest and bloodiest episodes in Toledan history took place, what is known as “Una noche toledana” (O “La Jornada del Foso” ) . In what …
History and legends of the very noble city of Toledo
From the first settlements in the Toledan massif, of important natural and above all strategic wealth, to the present day, as a city established as the capital of the autonomy of Castilla-La Mancha… We offer …
Hombre de Palo legend
And in the darkest moment, when need and imagination come together, it is when the light of genius shines with greater intensity to “give birth” to a character who left a deep mark on the history …
The Bitter Well
El Pozo Amargo, in Toledo 3.7 08 ” Time has passed that in the noble mansion of Doña Leonor silence is absolute. Finished the rosary, that passes the own owner after yantar of the night, …
Virgen de Alfileritos
” Times were those of discoveries and wars for men, of loneliness and tears of absence for women. Italy, Flanders and the Indies were places where a youth covered itself with glory, writing history and …
La Cava
No one knows how Count D. Julian’s daughter died. In that upheaval of an empire that sank in the Guadalete with horrible din, in that disappearance of an entire race, all the characters that, more …
