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The city of Toledo was declared a Historic-Artistic Site in 1940, UNESCO later given the title of World Heritage in 1987. Sights include:

Castillo de San Servando. Medieval castle near the banks of the Tagus river and the Infantry Academy.

The Gothic Cathedral, dating from the thirteenth century. Inside there is the Clear from Narciso Tome, in Baroque.

Monasterio de San Juan de los Reyes, in Elizabethan Gothic style (15th century)

The Renaissance Museo-Hospital de Santa Cruz (16th century)

Museo de El Greco. House-museum designed as a recreation of the artist's home, which was lost centuries ago. It houses several important paintings.

Santa María la Blanca, the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing, now owned by the Catholic Church.

Synagogue de el Transito, in the Jewish Quarter. It is home to the Sephardic Museum.

Hospital de Tavera Museum Duque de Lerma. Renaissance style, dates from the sixteenth century. Influenced the layout of El Escorial.

Church of Santiago del Arrabal, in Mudéjar style.

Iglesia de Santo Tome. Mudejar style, the fourteenth century, houses the famous Burial of Count Orgaz, by El Greco.

El Cristo de la Luz, a small mosque-oratory built in 999, later extended with Mudejar apse for conversion into a church.

Galiana Palace (13th century), in Mudejar style.

Tornerías Mosque (11th century).

Alcazar fortress (16th century), located in the highest part of town, overlooking the city. From 2009 it houses the collection of the Army Museum.

Puerta del Sol. Mudejar style and built by the Knights Hospitallers in the fourteenth century.

New Gate of Hinge, by Alonso de Covarrubias (16th century, based on Arabic structures).

Old door hinge or Puerta de Alfonso VI.

Cambrón gate, of Muslim-16th century origin.

San Román (Museum of the Councils and Visigoth culture).

Ermita del Cristo de la Vega, in Mudéjar style (11th century).

Alcántara bridge.

To mark the fourth centenary of the publication of the first part of Don Quixote+, the Council of Communities of Castile-La Mancha designed a series of routes through the region crossing the various points in the novel are cited. Is known as the Route of Don Quixote and two of pathways designed, sections 1 and 8, are based in Toledo: those linking the city with La Mancha Castile and Montes de Toledo exploiting the natural route which passes through the Cigarrales and heads to Cobisa, Nambroca Burguillos of Toledo where he takes the Camino Real from Sevilla to suddenly turn towards Mascaraque Almonacid de Toledo, deep into their surroundings, near Mora, in La Mancha.

This stretch Mascaraque-Toledo of the Route of Don Quixote has recently been included in an official way on the Camino de Santiago in Levantine branch with origins in Cartagena, Alicante and Valencia, as both routes share declared European Cultural Route route on this stretch .


 
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