You can read Spain’s history on the walls and streets of Toledo…
The massive buildings and bridges, the Alcázar, fortifications of any kind telling of the blood shed over the many centuries of its existence. The Romans where the first to see the strategical position of Toletum and started building houses, tempels, roads… there is little left from this period.. also little left from the Vizigot buildings and churches.. Did you know that not the Arabs but the Romans where the first to build the patios? 
but they where sure the first to “adorne” them with fontaines of different sizes and with amazingly smelling plants…
After seeing Cordoba and Granada last year, Toledo didn’t impress me to the bones, but it gave me the same warm feeling… I love the Mudéjar style and I love to see places and to know that there people of different religions could live and florish together… the Sinagoge Maria la Blanca is a testimony!
With so much historical stones, so much immortality in iron and brickwork, the ephemeral figure of Toledo is almost human… still, it is beyond time… its shape is a concession and a defiance to life and death, a monument to short-lived things.
