Toledo

Last Friday we went to Toledo! Since it was part of our program we focused on the historical parts of the city that relate to what we're learning in class. Toledo used to be the capital of Spain, so it definitely has a lot of history. The coolest part about it is that for a few centuries Christians, Jews, and Muslims all lived there without killing each other! Whichever religion was governing at the time definitely had priority in every sort of way, and eventually the Christians expelled/killed everyone else, but for a while there things were kind of nice.


In honor of all this religious tolerance, we visited:

A monastery, el Monasterio de San Juan de los Reyes

A synagogue

Another synagogue that was also a museum

The cathedral

and a mosque

As usual I refer you to Facebook for more pictures! I'm leaving for Barcelona soon so get ready for a great post about that later!