Day 15 -- Toledo

We retrieved our car from the underground car park and paid the $37 fee. Parking has been expensive everywhere. The drive from Salamanca to Toledo was easy on good highways. One short piece was a toll road which cost $10. We looked on Trip Advisor for a hotel with parking this time so our hotel is not in the city center, but across the river high on a hill overlooking the town. The views are spectacular. Toledo is located on a hill, with the Alcazar and the cathedral close to the top. It is a very popular with tourists because of its history, the incredible cathedral and many other spectacular churches. It’s a town marked by three distinctly different cultures --- Muslim, Catholic and Jewish. It is also the city where El Greco lived and painted so the cathedral has a big collection of his paintings, not to mention the museum dedicated to him and his art. The cathedral is really immense and ornate. We were lucky because it wasn’t totally packed with tourists so we were able to get close to everything, but even on this Monday in October, we saw more tour groups and more tourists than any other place we went to.