Toledo – former capital of Spain – photos from my visit

I visited Toledo in 2010 and spent a lovely couple of days in this medieval city. Fascinating place because you really sense the Christian, Jewish and Muslim heritage of Al-Andalus in modern Spain. Toledo was once a jewel in the crown of the caliphate that ruled it from the eighth to the eleventh centuries. When it fell to the crusaders, the city’s libraries were found to be stuffed with the knowledge of both Islam at its intellectual height and works from the Greeks, Romans and Persians – a huge boost to thinking in the Middle Ages.

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