The house of the chains
On Calle de las Bulas, in the house that once housed the “Museum of Contemporary Art” in Toledo, we can see on its façade, near the front, some sturdy hanging chains, a reminder of the …
The Jewish Devil
The “black legend” that since the Middle Ages has accompanied the February People living in Toledo, even after their expulsion, shows us one more chapter with the text that we adapt below in The Jewish …
The Alley of the Jacintos
On the edge of the Jewish quarter of Toledo, a legend of love between the Jew Salome and a Christian knight who, once again, ends in tragedy… An arrogant gentleman descends along the Cuesta del …
The Holy Child of La Guardia
According to Toledo’s oral tradition, a group of Hebrews residing in Spain in 1491 decide, upon observing the Inquisition’s treatment of their brothers, to give a lesson to Christians by kidnapping a child and subjecting …
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 …
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, …