We traveled by train on New Year's Day from Cordoba to Toledo and checked-into the #1 recommended hotel in our guidebook, the
Casa de Cisneros. The hotel is literally right adjacent to the Toledo Cathedral, and the hotel gets its name from Fr. Jimenez Cisneros who was named Archbishop of Toledo in 1495 and was elevated to the status of a cardinal in 1507. Cisneros had a rather lengthy tenure as archbishop
and was active in promoting missionary work, military campaigns in No. Africa, and the Spanish Inquisition. (We were told by the owner of the hotel that a part of our building was once used as a prison to house persons accused by the Inquisition.) And, we know that Cardinal Cisneros actually lived in the building in which we stayed over 5 centuries ago!
I am pictured below overlooking a river gorge just below the Alcazar. -rw
1 comment:
It's a wonderful picture of Cardinal Cisneros with his archbishop's mitre.
And the best part is that if you turn the photo 90 degrees counterclockwise, the mitre turns into a happy fish.
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