ACTIVITIES FOR ACCOMPANYING PERSONS
Illescas - Carranque
We will visit Esquivias, where Cervantes’s House-Museum is located. We will complete our tour with Illescas. Illescas has an important Church where Greco’s original paintings can be visited.
We will also visit an archaeological park with roman ruins of historic interest, due to the good conservation of its mosaics which were part of a majestic Roman villa. In there, we will be able to appreciate the entire rooms and its ingenious system of heating. The town is completed with a basilica that is still used for public and religious purposes and an amazing grotto for the water storage.
The visitor can also access to a Roman museum and complete his visit with an explanatory projection of the works that are carried out in this archaeological park.
Distances:
- Toledo – Esquivias; 38 Km.
- Esquivias – Carranque; 11 Km.
Carranque - Toledo; 49 Km
Ocaña
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Ocaña
is considered a “Mudejar” style village. It was Castilian’s Court venue in
several occasions. Among its remarkable monuments we can visit the baroque
Main Square, the Gotic-Mudejar Church of San Juan Bautista, or convents such
as Santo Domingo or Carmelitas Descalzas.
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Aranjuez - Chinchon
There
are many monuments that can be visited inside Aranjuez. Some examples are:
the “U” shape Real Palace, next to the courtyard, the central pediment and
the statues of three monarches under whose reigns it has been built: Felipe
II, Felipe V and Fernando VI. Inside the Palace are several rooms decorated
with important work of art.
The
Real House of Labrador, a wonderful building located inside the Prince
Garden.
Falúas Museum, is also incide the Prince Garden. It is a small but really
peculiar museum where we will visit the Falúas used by monarchs to navigate
across Tajo River. This river crosses Aranjuez and its gardens.
Moreover, Aranjuez has sumptuous gardens such as the Prince Garden, Parterre
or Island Garden, we will go for a stroll along these gardens.
Alter lunch we will go to Chinchón in order to visit the remarkable Main
Square and we will come back to Toledo.
The 3 cultures in Toledo
Muslims, Jewish and Christians, who are represented in
Toledo, their traditions, cultures, legends, and quarters...
At the beginning of the tour we will have the opportunity of doing a
panoramic view surrounded the valley' area, the old bridges of Toledo:
Alcantara and Saint Martin, the rural houses of Toledo and the small
churches.
Then we will enter in the old city and we will begin the tour from Zocodover
Square, which was an Arab market and we will discover some of its buildings,
the Cathedral, the synagogues, and the mosques. Also the narrow streets of
Toledo, the passé ways or covered street, Becquer's leyends, the convents
and the curiosities of this period will be visited.
