SpainTravel elGreco's city Toledo

The Tagus river flows through Toledo to the west transversely.
Toledo is the hilltown of the Tagus abandonment area, and the spot that river meandered through greatly.

A figure of Toledo of the opposite bank to look at from the hill between sun Martin Bridge and the Alcantara Bridge of a Carretera highway running along Tagus river is beautiful. There is a photograph spot by the Toledo sightseeing tour.
Toledo is a town of the Roman Empire staying in the present age.
Toledo with a unique aspect was the ground of a natural strategic point of many races for the topography.

Toledo was the capital of the west Goth of the first half from Rome of about B.C. 200 in the fifth century.
She was ruled before an Arab in the first half in the eighth century by the Omayyad dynasty, and Toledo recapture (Reconquista) by the sixth Alfons of the Castilia kingdom was similar in 1085 and stopped, and it was established with a King nation's capital. The history of the Toledo prosperity continued to a capital move to Madrid by the second Felipe afterwards.

Toledo is a town of El Greco

After having seen the sights of the town of beautiful Toledo, you should visite to the glesia de Santo Tome in where exhibites the "Entierro del conde de Orgaz", El Greco's best masterpiece picture.

The state of heavens is drawn a little with Jesus Christ who is going to meet the soul of the Earl Orgaz on this picture. In addition, the lower half minute is watched by knights, and Orgaz buried to St.Augustin with St.Sebastian is pictured and lets you appear to the son with the El Greco person himself.

There are many gems about El Greco in Toledo.
El Greco's house (art museum) and a portrait of apostles of Christ, "The death of the Virgin Mary" and "the Annunciation" in the Santa cross Museum which is near to the alcantara bridge, and El Espolio exhibited in the vestry room of the sanctuary (cathedral), we cannot recite art of Toledo without El Greco.

The El Greco

El Greco learned in Italy Venetia and Rome, and it is said he has shown in Tolede in 1577-78 years.
Greco may be the name that a person of Toledo read in a meaning called "the Greek" with all friendly feeling not the real name.

El Greco is a pet name of the meanings to call a Greek. Italian painter Cimabue has a meaning to call the head of the ox. Botticelli as a small barrel and Tintoretto as a small dye houses have a pet name to other painters.

Three Spanish major pictures in the Europe

Speaking of Spanish something, European three major pictures are :

1. El Greco's "Entierro del conde de Orgaz" in Toledo
2. "Las Meninas" of VELAZQUEZ in Museo Nacional del Prado of Madrid
3. "A night watch" of Rembrandt in the Dutch National Gallery

There are 2 of these in Spain, and it is Spanish pride
By the way, as for Leonardo da Vinci, "inventor", Michelangelo seem to be "sculptors".

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