Waking Up in Toledo

by Joan Carroll

Title

Waking Up in Toledo

Artist

Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Art

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Toledo Spain teems with tourists by day but is quiet and moody when the tourists take the last train back to Madrid. It was wonderful to stay overnight in Toledo to catch the atmosphere after dark and before dawn. Pictured is the 'main drag' that tourists walk along every day between the Plaza de Zocodover and the Cathedral. By night and in the early morning it takes on a ghostly air. This is not as ghostly as it might seem since in January (when this was taken), the sun doesn't rise until after 8:30 am! So it was still quite dark at 7 or 7:30 in the morning, not an unreasonable hour for many Americans but quite early for the Spanish! Toledo was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive cultural and monumental heritage as one of the former capitals of the Spanish Empire and place of coexistence of Christian, Muslim and Jewish cultures, as well as the place where harsh religious persecutions were held against the Jews by the Visigoths.

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July 9th, 2015

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