The Well and the Pendulum Legend
The Well and the Pendulum, The Pit and the Pendulum, written in 1842, is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known stories. We recommend its reading in absolute tranquillity, with little light, and with the certainty …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
El Cristo de la Vega, legend of Toledo
” There were two lovers in Toledo: Diego Martínez and Inés de Vargas. They had maintained premarital relations and she, in view of the knowledge that her father had of such a fact, demands that …