Toledo, Spain

Toledo is a city in Spain with a population of 85,000. It is a historical city with a lot of monuments. The city was important from the Roman period to the 18th century. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha and the Toledo province. Many famous people and artists were born or lived in this city, including Garcilaso de la Vega, Alfonso X and El Greco. A city in Ohio was named after this.

City
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Coordinates: 39°51′24″N 4°1′28″W
Country	Spain
Autonomous Community	Castile–La Mancha
Province	Toledo
Comarca	Toledo
Partido judicial	Toledo
Settled	Pre-Roman
Government
• Mayor	Emiliano García-Page Sánchez (PSOE)
Area
• Land	232.1 km2 (89.6 sq mi)
Elevation	529 m (1,736 ft)
Population  (2012)INE
• Total	84,019
Postcode	45001-45009
Website	http://www.ayto-toledo.org/

Map of Spain with Toledo shown in red

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Panoramic photo of Toledo

Toledo, Spain Media

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  Baños de Tenerías, one of the Muslim baths in the city

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  Depiction of people from Toledo in AD 976, from the 10th-century Codex Vigilanus.

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  Territory controlled by the Taifa of Toledo circa 1037

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  Toledo as depicted in the Civitates orbis terrarum (1572)

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  View and Plan of Toledo by city resident El Greco c. 1608

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  Republican militia women besieging the Alcázar, controlled by the Nationalist faction

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  Opening of the railway in Toledo in June 1858

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  Panorama of Toledo from the Virgen del Valle by Juan Laurent

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  Heinrich Himmler and General José Moscardó visiting the ruins of the Alcázar

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  Spanish rooftop view by Nedi Lufcic

Further reading

• Hannah Lynch (1898), Toledo, Mediaeval Towns, London: J.M. Dent & Co., OCLC 150311124

Other websites

• Municipality
• Exhibit on Toledo, Ohio Sister City Agreement Archived 2009-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Photography of Toledo by Antony Marsh
• http://lahistoriadefermosa.com Archived 2013-06-07 at the Wayback Machine "La Historia de Fermosa" Abraham S. Marrache, Hebraica Ediciones 2009, a historical novel in Spanish about the love affair in 1179 between King Alfonso VIII of Castile and the young Toledan Jewess, Fermosa.
• Sunset in Toledo Archived 2009-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, Eretz Acheret Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today Magazine
• Legends of Toledo
• Free Audio Guide of Toledo ES/EN
• Spain's official website - Info about Toledo Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine