Ghost of Toledo Tour

This Route is a walk through the most enigmatic corners of the city of Toledo; convents, squares and alleys each with its mysteries and legends.

We will start the Ghostly Route in the Plaza de Zocodover, the meeting place with our guides, this square, the nerve and social center of the city, and formerly the place of public executions of inmates sentenced to death.

From here we will go to the Museum of Santa Cruz, today one of the main museums in Spain and formerly it was a hospital founded by Cardinal Mendoza and since then there has been talk of the apparitions of Sor Luz.

The Santa Cruz Hospital was the place to house the Clavicote, a kind of altar where the prisoners executed in Zocodover were deposited so that the people of Toledo could visit the dead and help with their donations to the funeral of the executed person.

We will enter the center of the city through its small and narrow streets towards the Virgen de Alfileritos, a beautiful legend of love where today, the young women of this city approach the image to throw a pin to have a boyfriend.

Between legends of Becquer and other popular ones that place us in different times, we will arrive at the Convent of Santa Clara to learn about the mysterious apparitions of Sor María de Jesús.

This area of ​​the city brings together a large number of mysterious and legendary places. Near here, in the old Dominican convent of Jesus and Mary, there is the famous photo of the walled-in nun.

Very close to here, walking through the Plaza de Santo Domingo el Real, Becquer tells us the precious legend of the Three Dates.

This walk will take us to the Cathedral of Toledo, the architectural jewel, it is the building that houses the most legends and stories of Toledo, hundreds of years have made this place the origin and destination of different miracles and legends; these legends have often been transferred to paper through great writers such as Gustavo Adolfo Becquer who acted as chroniclers of their time.

Alleys and streets such as the alley of hell or the Christ of the Skull makes us not know the difference on many occasions the difference between legend and history.

Templars, Jews, Christians, Muslims, all left their mark and with it their stories, for two hours this Route will try to show you and teach you these mysteries.