Toledo, Spain

Modern living in an old walking town

In November of 2014, five friends and I went to Madrid for a week’s vacation and the Real Madrid vs Liverpool champions league group stage match. After the match day, we took a detour to Toledo, Spain, a small town about an hour north of Madrid. The town is a great cozy historic spot to have some fun and see some neat old Spanish history. We stayed at a spectacular modern airbnb while we were there.

The Sights

We only had one day and two nights in Toledo, but the town is not that large so we still had time to walk most of it and see what there was to see. What we did not get to sadly was the famous military museum there which is supposed to be outstanding according to other places that have reviewed it. Instead we spent our day taking the Toledo Train Tour (note: not really a train). That took us through a lot of the historic spots in the city as well as across the river protecting the city to see it in its entirety. The tour took about 90 minutes and we felt like we had covered most of what was in Toledo.

That night we walked around the neatly lit small streets around our airbnb and had a nice meal and a few drinks. It was a low key trip, but still a great ending to the overall Madrid vacation.