Kingfisher Travelers

Thursday found us heading to the wonderful city of Toledo via Madrid. We boarded our plane Thursday morning in Malaga and made the one hour flight to Madrid. Happy to have one leg of the trip back to OKC out of the way, we directly boarded a bus for the hour drive to Toledo. No, we were not in Ohio. However, after approaching the Alcantara bridge that spans the Tagus river and seeing the brilliant reddish-colored architecture that forms the city, we realized we weren't in Kansas anymore either. The Alcantara bridge was built in 866 AD and reconstructed in 1257. Once in the city, our first stop was the cathedral.

The cathedral was an absolute masterpiece that took 500 years to build. Unfortunately, there was no photography allowed inside the cathedral. This made our resident photographers fairly uneasy. Thankfully, they kept their fingers off the shutters. The grandeur of Toledo's cathedral can only be explained in photos. If you would like to see the inside, buy the book. We did.

From the cathedral, we went to Santo Tome church, where El Greco's The Burial of the Count Orgaz resides. This work of art in considered by some to be one of the four most important paintings in the world.

After the cathedral, we went to the synagogue where we were treated to examples of the Jewish influence on the city of Toledo throughout history.

Once back at the hotel, a couple of us stole away to attempt to capture the magnificence of the Royal Palace at night before we visit it by day tomorrow.