For a time, Toledo disputed with Madrid the privilege of being the capital of Spain.
History, which had made the city the center and emblem of the Visigoth kingdom, and became the capital of the great Spanish empire, with Carlos V and Felipe II, ended up opting for the city of Manzanares. However, that grievance, which plunged Toledo into a long stage of abandonment and ostracism, has eventually become its greatest source of wealth.
Less than an hour from Madrid, Toledo receives more than one million visitors every year from all over the world. No one from Europe, America, Asia or Africa can say that they have visited Spain if they have not passed through Toledo.
His cosmopolitanism, his recent expansion since, in 1983, was designated as the autonomous capital of Castilla-La Mancha, or his determined commitment to communications with neighboring cities, have not lost him, however, not one iota of beauty regal and heritage that has maintained throughout its history.
