Saturday, April 20, 2013

City of Toledo, Spain

Day 3 : Saturday 20th April 2013
Toledo is a municipality located in central Spain, 70 km south of Madrid. It is the capital of the province of Toledo. It is also the capital of autonomous community of Castile–La-Mancha. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive cultural and monumental heritage as one of the former capitals of the Spanish Empire and place of coexistence of ChristianMuslim and Jewish cultures, as well as the place where harsh religious persecutions were held against the Jews by the Visigoths.
















































































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