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After the arrival...
First action: take a piss Second action: "Ok.. where are we, where do we have to go?" |
Part of the outer city wall
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Puerta Vieja de Bisagra
The northern main entrance to the old part of Toledo |
Passing through the gate we just run into the church Santiago del Arrabal built in the "Mudejár"-style.
Also mind the ancient sculptures to the right explaining the twisting ways of life (or anything similar :P) |
Puerta del Sol (gate of the sun), part of the inner city wall (mudejár-style again)
See how picturesque we captured the meaning with the sun sparkling at the top right?! |
The big sewer of Toledo ;D
I really don't want to know to which godforsaken place this channel leads.... |
This alley can be considered as one of the bigger ones...
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And again a small alley... but now with a nice view of the cathedral of Toledo
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And here it is... in all its might an beauty.
The Cathedral of Toledo (I don't add any explanaitions here for wiki does a better job ;) ) |
...and again...
but this time with a bunch of tourist... damn, they really were everywhere... fucking tourists |
Us three (Tobias, Christian, me) standing on a sanguineous platform in front of the Arco de Sangre (Gate of blood)
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I just like the mix of the light behind the gate and me standing in the dark...
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Statue of Miguel de Cervantes
He's really omnipresent in spain |
Entrance to the Museo de Santa Cruz, which was a hospital/orphenage in earlier times.
The museum exhibits a nice collection of paintings from Tristán, Goya and El Greco. |
Luckily, the entrance was free.
In the background you can see two towers of the Alcázar (unluckily, it was closed) |
Tourists ^^
And yes... my guide is the red one, the smallest of the three |
I presume you allready guessed right:
This is spains most beautiful "plateresque" staircase |
Tower in front of the Puente de Alcántara, a pedestrian bridge crossing the river Tajo.
A really had to force the other two to go there (it was a hell of a trip down thousands of stairs and we knew that we had to go up again), but in the end it was worth it |
View from the Bridge to the Alcázar and the city
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Academia de Infanteria on the other side of the river
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And thats the view from town to the north-east
Flat and dry... just like I never liked it ;P |
the Alcázar from close
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Back of the cathedral seen from another small alley
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portal of San Ildefonso
(Toledo really is stuffed with churches) |
and this is San Román just 100 meters next to San Ildefonso.
There we made a nice break with some cans of beer ^^ |
Ah... yeah.... Toledo is stuffed with these sort of shops too!!
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No, your eyes are not playing ticks on you... This place really was some sort of tilted
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View from the old town to the new part of the town in the north
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Spanish way of parking:
1.: Your car is no propper car without a dent or a scretch 2.: Park as near to the wall as possible (best would be: the whole side of the car touches the wall) 3.: in order to get out, just open the side window 4.: mark your car with a tie to find it again easier |
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Na Uwe, das mit dem einparken üben wir aber nochmal!
Tobais · 2008-10-24: 06:49
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