Toledo with children: the 10 essential places
Any time of the year is ideal for a break, and the truth is that Spain is full of ideal destinations for both couples and friends and, of course, families. This time we travel to Toledo to tell you the 10 best places where children will enjoy of the house, but also the parents. Do not miss them!
Family tourism allows us to know cities in a different way, and at each age we want to see some places or others: it is not the same to visit London, for example, with children or without them: the leisure options that you bet on will be totally different, something totally logical and normal and that allows us to know different cities in one.
Toledo is a Castilian, Muslim, Roman city ... which offers various forms of cultural tourism for all ages, and in which The whole family will enjoy it very much thanks to its many monuments and curious places for adults and adults. You do not know her? Do not miss this guide.
What to see in Toledo with children
1.- Cathedral of Toledo
It is one of the most impressive monuments of Toledo. So much so, that it would not be surprising if your children exclaimed something like "it's not big, it's huge". Its stained glass windows, arches and immense door will leave you amazed to large and small.
2.- Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes
It is the most important monument built by the Catholic Monarchs in Toledo, which can also serve as an excuse to tell your children who these important people were for the history of Spain. The key: stand under its striking white dome; It has a star shape and eight angels hold it under its shoulders. You will love it!
3.-Cristo de la Luz Mosque
Yes, a mosque, that is, a Muslim temple, with a Christian name. Perhaps only for that reason it would be worth visiting, but there are many more details that will draw your attention. It is a building with a thousand years which is accessed through an old Roman road. Its interior, with its majestic garden with views of the suburbs, Puerta de Bisagra, Santiago del Arrabal and the Hospital de Tavera, is a place to enjoy.
4.- Castle of San Servando
A trip to the medieval era of princes and damsels is also possible in Toledo with, for example, this castle. The mythical Ruiz Díaz de Vivar, the Cid Campeador and the famous military order of the Knights Templar were defending him in his time of splendor, another excuse to tell the story to our children! Now it is a hostel: on the outside it is very old, made of stone and brick, but inside it keeps several surprises: comfortable rooms, games room ..., even a pool to give you a good dip in the summer.
5.- Puente de Alcántara
It is the oldest bridge in the city, a great place to enter the city through the "big door". Since Tourism Toledo explain that the name is a play on words, like a tongue twister? Alcántara is a word of Hispanic-Muslim origin that means bridge, so when we say Puente de Alcántara, we are saying the word bridge twice.
6.- Roman circus
Although you have to take a little imagination because what remains are only remains, we find the remains of the arches where was the stands, the platform for the audience seat. And there have been remains of the doors or vomitorios that the public used to enter and leave.
On one side were the representatives of power and nobility and on the other the rest of the population. As in a football game, the audience was divided by the participants and encouraged one or the other. Today, part of this circus is located in a public park, where we can enjoy pleasant shades.
7.- Roman baths Amador de los ríos
Roman Baths, Amador de los Ríos, it is a monument that is included in the free and guided visits to various monuments, archaeological sites and other places of singular interest, which have been recovered and valued by the Consortium of the City of Toledo and that took years, in some cases centuries, without being able to be visited.
8.- Mirador del Valle
The incredible views of this place have conquered great painters like Zurbarán or El Greco. In the center the tower of the Cathedral of Santa María. On the right is the Alcázar, which is the Army Museum and the library of Castilla La Mancha. Wonderful!
9.- Calle del Locum
It is one of those little known but essential corners. A street where you exercise because of the important slope, but it is worth it. Your story is curious: The Locum was the bath or the toilet of the canons, that is, the priests who worked in the Cathedral. When they came to relieve themselves, they said I'm going to Locum. And since then this is the name of this street.
10.- Puerta del Sol
It is one of the most beautiful and oldest doors in the city. It is built in brick and stone.The upper part is decorated with horseshoe arches, bricks placed in the shape of a peak, but it is not the only remarkable thing of this place: look and you will find little faces in white marble, they are the remains of a Roman sarcophagus reused to decorate the door.
Angela R. Bonachera
