Toledo has accumulated over thousands of years hundreds of legends.
Every street, corner, monument, almost every stone, preserves a legend, tradition or a mystery.
Discover all the legends of Toledo, here we continue telling them to you.
King Alfonso VIII gave the castle of San Servando to the Knights Templar to take charge of the surveillance and defence of the bridge of Alcántara and the access to the city. Today the castle …
The first guide to Toledo dedicated to showing the literary wealth that the City of the Tagus treasures: Literary Routes of Toledo”, by Mariano Calvo, has just been put on sale. The book consists of …
There are not a few who claim that “something” they have seen or felt in the Castle of San Servando. This “legend” already comes from time immemorial, as we can observe in the text narrated …
It’s been a while since we’ve shared a new Toledo legend. They’re not over, they’re still left. Among all those we still have to share, today we bring a text that we have always liked, …
Not long ago we were able to share a “new” legend from Toledo found thanks to the great work of dissemination that various institutions and administrations are doing of their funds on the Web, digitizing …
I know that there are many of you who come to these pages looking for legends adapted to the smallest. Schools, institutes or families seek to transmit the best known legends of Toledo trying to …
A lady, some identify as Doña Jerónima de las Cuevas, looks at us coldly, distantly, from the masterful portrait left by El Greco almost five hundred years ago. The mother of the only son of …
Toledo Unusual, Essay on the magical, hidden and mysterious ” Legend has it that, during Antiquity, many infernal beings, magicians, witches, astrologers, necromancers, Sortilegos, fairies and elves came to populate the rocky mound that would …
La Vega Baja de Toledo ” La Vega Baja de Toledo” is the title of the first book edited by Toletum Visigodo in collaboration with the Fundación Cultura y Deporte, the Toledo City Council and …
In these preamble days of summer, of holidays, during which many strive to examine themselves to fulfill their obligations and others conscientiously prepare their well-deserved vacations, we recover what we have published, and while we …
Several of Toledo’s notable sons had spent the afternoon of a day in 1520 under the Gothic and spacious cloisters of the Holy Cathedral, as was their custom, talking about how they would put an …
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From a very young age, His Royal Highness Alfonso XIII used to visit Toledo. Even several times a year due to its proximity to the Court located in Madrid and to the train that almost …
Toledo has been known throughout Europe since ancient times as a reference city for the teaching of the “Magic Arts”, including necromancy, and in our city, as in Salamanca, it was claimed that there was …
