Alcázar de Toledo- Its privileged situation has made it a place of great military strategic value and this was intuited by the various peoples who settled there. His name is due to one of those dominators: the Arabs, who were those who called him "Al Qasar", which means "fortress", shortened name of which was usual: "Al-Quasaba", whose meaning was the place of True princely residence.

In the third century it was a Roman palace where, after the conquest of the city, they established the praetorium, seat of the magistrate or praetor. During the Visigothic era, King Leovigildo established his capital in it in 568. From then on, the surroundings were used for "royal residences" that were completed with the construction of the "Praetorian" churches, named for their proximity to the praetorium. , like that of Santa Leocadia. It is believed that in this church they are buried, flanking the tomb of the saint, the kings Wamba and Recesvinto, which - together with Chindasvinto - created the Jurisdiction. From the era of Muslim domination, the works initiated by Abd al-Rhaman II in 836 and by Ab al Rhaman III in 932 stand out.

It was restored and extended during the mandate of Alfonso VI and his successors Alfonso VII and Alfonso VIII; Ferdinand III the Holy embellishes it considerably and Alfonso X the Wise manages to combine the three cultures that have passed through Toledo - Jewish, Arabic and Christian - with the famous Toledo School of Translators, completed the eastern facade and ordered the construction of the four plant towers square that form the four corners of the building.

From the fourteenth century, when the Muslim threat had almost completely disappeared, under the dynasty of the Trastámara began to exercise the function of royal abode. The interior reforms followed during the reigns of Peter I, called "the cruel" by his detractors and "the righteous" by his followers, Henry I, John II, Henry IV and, later, the Catholic Monarchs who conditioned the west facade.

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