The Cathedral And The City Of Toledo

The city of Toledo lies on a granite escarpment on a range of dust-covered hills, southwest of Madrid. Toledo has always been one of the cultural and political centres of the Iberian peninsula, incoporating the best Arabic, Jewish and Christian traditions. Rising from the streets of the old European thirteeth-century Gothic architecture. The first cathedral to be built in Spain, it boasts a series of masterpieces, including the stucco-painted sculpture by Narciso Tome – the Transparente. This introduction to one of Spains most culturally diverse cities takes the form of a tour opf the cathedral and city, which focuses on the cathedrals art and architecture.