The Chasuble of San Ildefonso
The imposition of the chasuble on San Ildefonso in Toledo, makes this tradition toledana one of the most revered in our city, being represented in numerous works of art and being celebrated as Patron of …
Marcia and the legend of the river (Tagus)
Hadrian has been proclaimed the new emperor of Rome. Toletum, as one of the most important metropolises of Hispania celebrates the arrival to power of someone who was not born far from the city, for …
The prophecy of the Tagus
Legend has it that it was a Count named Don Julián who betrayed his King (Don Rodrigo, last Visigoth King), allied with the Arabs and facilitated the passage through the Strait of Gibraltar for them …
Santa Leocadia
The current Mudejar temple of Santa Leocadia rises above the house in which the Toledo virgin lived. Under this church there is still a subterranean, next to the main altar, which was the room where …
The Wizard of Boo, the legend
Rafael Escobar Contreras introduces us with this brief and new Toledan legend the narrative thread that follows the novel of the same name, which we have already commented in these pages previously. A novel proposed …
The Enchanted Palace of Toledo (II)
In the search for explanations to major catastrophes the people sometimes generate myths, legends or false stories. Also centuries ago, with the invasion of the peninsula, a “supernatural” tale was generated from the obviousness of …
The Enchanted Palace of Toledo (I)
Great treasures Toledo hides in his bowels. According to tradition, protected by fierce animals and large statues, and he who dares to face them will end his days there, as we can read in this …
The Tarpeya Rock
Towards the fourth century, and under the Roman domination of Toledo, we find a legend that, like so many others in the city, mixes love, religion, persecution and death. Toledo hides a violent history even …
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 …
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 …