West collides with East as the Christians drop an enormous cathedral from a great height slap bang into the middle of the Mosque, giving us Córdoba's famous 2 for 1 offer - same God, different prophets!
Besalu
Another example of religious intolerance, this time in Girona province. Besalu is a picturesque medieval town where the Jewish community were hounded in this ghetto until, like the baby of bathwater fame, they were booted out with the Moors in 1492. We actually met some Sephardic Jews from Turkey (when we were in Zaragoza) who told us that they still speak Spanish there after all these years.
Toledo
Apart from being constantly lost, and constantly thinking how big the cathedral was, my main memory of Toledo is of constantly singing 'You picked a fine time to leave me loose heel.'
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