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Museum · Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha

Sephardic Museum (Synagogue of El Tránsito)

Museo Sefardí · Sinagoga del Tránsito

The Sephardic Museum (Museo Sefardí) is a state museum of Hispano-Jewish and Sephardic culture in the fourteenth-century Synagogue of El Tránsito, in Toledo's old Jewish quarter.

Why go

The museum's history page says the synagogue was built in the fourteenth century by Samuel ha-Leví, treasurer of King Pedro I of Castile; after the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 it passed to the Order of Calatrava and became a church, later called El Tránsito after a painting of the Death of the Virgin by Juan Correa de Vivar that is now in the Prado. The building was declared a National Monument in 1877, and the museum was created by decree in 1964 inside the synagogue and opened to the public in 1971. The museum's tickets page says there is no advance booking for individual visitors, that groups of 8 to 30 people can book ahead, and that tickets are paid at the museum. The record is the museum; the synagogue building is related and not a separate record here.

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City

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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