Sister City Information - Toledo, Spain

 Toledo, Spain

Toledo Sister Cities International: "Established in 1931, the Toledo, Ohio - Toledo, Spain connection is the oldest formally recognized sister-city relationship in the world. The cultural and historical connection, however, goes back to at least 1835..." [read more]

Wikipedia: "Toledo (Spanish: [toˈleðo]) is a municipality located in central Spain, 70 km south of Madrid. It is the capital of the province of Toledo and the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive cultural and monumental heritage and historical co-existence of Christian, Muslim and Jewish cultures. Toledo is known as the "Imperial City" for having been the main venue of the court of Charles I, and as the "City of the Three Cultures", having been influenced by a historical co-existence of Christians, Muslims and Jews. In 1085, the city fell to Alfonso VI of Castile as the first major city in the Christian Reconquista. Toledo has a history in the production of bladed weapons, which are now popular souvenirs of the city..." [Wikipedia link]

 

Digital Collections: Archives, Libraries, and Museums

Toledo, Spain. Montage by Toledo's Attic 

• Biblioteca Digital de Castilla-La Mancha (Digital Library of Castilla-La Mancha) - The Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha holds one of the most important heritage collections of Spain. Founded in the eighteenth century, the collection includes more than 100,000 manuscripts, incunabula and prints from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries about Toledo and Spain. We have two main digital heritage collections: one, the Biblioteca Digital de Castilla-La Mancha (BIDICAM), that includes these rich collections preserved in our Library, and the other, the Virtual Exhibitions on our website.
  
  • Search
  • Lugares (Places): Toledo (prepared browse)
  • Virtual exhibitions
  • Photo Gallery
  • Archivo de la imagen (Search the image archive)
• Biblioteca Regional de Castilla-La Mancha
  • Local and Regional Collections
  • Virtual Exhibitions
  • Virtual visit to the library
• Archivo Histórico Provincial de Toledo
  
  • Virtual exhibitions
• Archivo Municipal de Toledo (Municipal Archives of Toledo)
  • Imágenes de Toledo (images of Toledo)
  • Curiosos, documentos interesantes (rare and interesting documents)
  • Peliculas sobre Toledo (moves about Toledo)
• Museo del Greco Collections
• Museo del Ejército (Spanish Army Museum)
  • Fotografía Histórica (History of Photography)
• Real Academia de Bellas Artes y Ciencias Históricas de Toledo
  • Publications (Indices and PDF documents)
• Real Fundación de Toledo
  
  • Centro de Documentación
  • Archivo Digital Convento de San Clemente

Related Web Links

• Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
• Europeana Collection (Toledo)
• Hispana Digital Collections (search)
• University of Catilla-La Mancha Library: Spanish Digital Collections
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Acknowledgments

Toledo's Attic would like to thank the following individuals for kindly assisting with this virtual exhibition:

• Carmen Morales Mateo, Deputy Director of Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha and Associate Professor of University of Castilla-La Mancha
• Rocío Tejero Notario, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Biblioteca Digital Hispánica