Anyone looking for property or a city break will find not a single square centimetre of space remains on the rock on which stands the historic heart of Toledo, surrounded by the river Tagus. Houses and churches, synagogues and mosques of the three civilisations, Christians, Arabs and Jews, that lived in peaceful harmony in this city, cluster together in a tight spiral interrupted only by the stone-paved narrow streets that climb steeply up to the Plaza de Zocodover, from where the Cuesta de Carlos V rises to the highest point of the imperial city, the fortress of Toledo.
The best place to begin a tour of Toledo is right at its centre, the Plaza de Zocodover, and from there stroll around the streets of Toledo in search of the churches of Santiago del Arrabal, Santa Úrsula, El Salvador and Santo Tomé; the synagogues of El Tránsito and Santa María la Blanca; the Tonerías mosque; the convent of Santa Fe; the hospital and museum of Santa Cruz; the fortress; the not-to-be-missed house-museum of El Greco; the monastery of San Juan de los Reyes; not forgetting, of course, the Plaza Mayor, the city hall and the nearby Cathedral, which took 250 years to reach completion and is the place that best demonstrates the historical importance and influence that religion once had in the present-day capital of Castilla-La Mancha. The historic quarter is the liveliest part of Toledo, which is why the stone-paved streets of the centre bustle with activity. The best tapas bars in Toledo are around Zocodover, whilst the nightlife is centred in the bars in Alfileritos, Sillería, the Plaza de la Magdalena and the Miradero area. Marzipan, damascene work and wrought iron goods, the most
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