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The City
of Three
Cultures
The city of Toledo is recognizable through its
most famous resident, the Spanish
Renaissance painter El Greco, who painted the
city narrow, slender, almost pinched by the
deep gorge that borders it on three sides. For
centuries before the Moors' arrival, the city
was famous for sword-making and supplying
armies from Roman to medieval times with
"Toledo steel." But it was also a place for
peace—during Moorish reign, within the city
walls existed a tolerant and rich civilization
where Christian Castilian, Jew and Moor
coexisted for centuries. Visitors can still feel
the pre-eminence of the spiritual here in the
"City of Three Cultures," by visiting the Cristo
de la Luz Mosque, the Synagogue of Santa
María la Blanca or the Toledo Cathedral.
TOLEDO
CALLEJA DE LAS FLORES, CÓRDOBA CATHEDRAL OF THE SAVIOR, ZARAGOZA
