Toledo, Spain
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City | |
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Nickname: La ciudad Imperial (The Imperial City) | |
Coordinates: 39°51′24″N 4°1′28″W / 39.85667°N 4.02444°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 |
Area code | +34 |
Website | http://www.ayto-toledo.org/ |
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.
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Sinagoga del Tránsito
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Notes
[change | change source]Further reading
[change | change source]- Hannah Lynch (1898), Toledo, Mediaeval Towns, London: J.M. Dent & Co., OCLC 150311124
Other websites
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Toledo, Spain.
- 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