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Fortress · Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha

Alcázar of Toledo

Alcázar de Toledo

The Alcázar of Toledo is a fortress on one of the hills of Toledo, now the seat of Spain's Army Museum (Museo del Ejército).

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The Army Museum's site says the Alcázar of Toledo is the museum's seat and that the museum occupies two buildings, the Alcázar and a new building that gives access to all the facilities, which together form a single complex from outside. Its Alcázar route marks surviving spaces inside the fortress, among them a horseshoe arch from the Umayyad-period entrance, Roman and Islamic cisterns, fifteenth-century water tanks and a Renaissance staircase by Francisco de Villalpando that was rebuilt after the Spanish Civil War. Wikidata also lists the Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha among the building's occupants. This record is the fortress building; the Army Museum that has its seat there is a related subject, not this record.

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Toledo

Toledo is a city in central Spain, capital of the province of Toledo and of Castilla-La Mancha, whose city council's tourism site describes it as a UNESCO World Heritage city. XTOUR maps the cathedral, the Alcázar, the Sephardic Museum and the monastery of San Juan de los Reyes, all inside the city.

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