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The Toledo Gate, photograph by Juan Ángel Piqueras, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 13 July 2026. The Toledo Gate (Spanish: La Puerta de Toledo) in Ciudad Real is a significant example of military architecture...

The Church of Cristo de la Luz, photograph by Juan Ángel Piqueras, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 25 July 2026. The Church of Cristo de la Luz is one of the few monuments in Toledo where the city’s various...

The Bisagra Gate, photograph by Juan Ángel Piqueras, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 24 July 2026. The Bisagra Gate (Spanish: La Puerta de Bisagra), also known as the New Bisagra Gate, is a monumental entrance located...

Portrait of Don Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (l. 1507-1582) by Antonis Mor, 1557. Hispanic Society Museum and Library, New York.

Taifas ("factions" or "camps") were small independent Muslim kingdoms and principalities that emerged after the fall of hegemonic Muslim caliphates in al-Andalus – the Muslim-controlled part of the Iberian peninsula – during the High...

Abd al-Rahman was the founder of the Emirate of Cordoba and ruled as Abd al-Rahman I from 756-788 CE. As one of the lone survivors of the Umayyad Dynasty after the Abbasids defeated the Umayyad Caliphate, Abd al-Rahman bridged...

The Schmalkaldic War (1546-1547) was fought between the Protestant Schmalkaldic League and the Catholic armies under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who, having failed to achieve religious unity of his subjects at the Diet of Augsburg...

The first taifa period followed the collapse of Umayyad authority in al-Andalus. The Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba (756–929) had become the Caliphate of Córdoba (929–1031...

An 1874 oil on canvas painting, In a Villa By the Seaside, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. (Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, USA)

European explorers began to probe the Western Hemisphere in the early 1500s, and they found to their utter amazement not only a huge landmass but also a world filled with several diverse and populous indigenous...