Toledo's culture runs deeper than one cathedral: a mosque from the year 999 with nine different brick vaults, El Greco's Apostolado hung in the quarter where he painted it, Visigothic capitals in a Mudéjar nave, and jazz under a Romanesque apse.
A 1911 reconstruction of a 16th-century Toledo house beside the painter's actual lodgings, holding his View and Plan of Toledo and a complete Apostolado series. Tue-Sat 09:30-19:30, Sun to 15:00; €3, free Saturdays after 14:00.
Built in 999 as the Bab al-Mardum mosque, this is Toledo's only near-intact Islamic building: nine small bays each roofed with a different brick vault, plus a Mudéjar apse and 12th-century Romanesque frescoes. Daily 10:00-18:45.
The Catholic Monarchs' Isabelline-Gothic monastery, its two-tier cloister carved with monkeys, gargoyles and thistles, its outer wall hung with the iron chains of Christian captives freed at Málaga in 1487. Open 10:00-18:45.
A twin-towered Baroque church begun in 1629, where the climb up the bell tower delivers the one rooftop panorama that frames the cathedral spire, the Alcázar block and the Tagus bend together. Open to 18:45; €4.
Cardinal Mendoza's Plateresque hospital of 1514, now Toledo's fine-arts museum: fifteen El Grecos including the Assumption of 1613, Flemish tapestries, and archaeology from Roman Toletum. Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, Sun to 15:00.
Toledo's municipal theatre since 1878, built on the site of a 16th-century corral de comedias, with a horseshoe auditorium of around 700 seats. Box office 11:00-13:30; the September-June season mixes drama, zarzuela and flamenco.
Inside Charles V's square fortress, twenty galleries built around excavated Roman and Visigothic foundations shown under glass floors, with the Civil War siege rooms preserved as they were found. Thu-Tue 10:00-17:00, closed Wed.
The deconsecrated 12th-century church of San Vicente, now a cultural club: contemporary art shows under the apse, a bar in the nave, and live jazz or singer-songwriter sets from around 21:00. Free entry, concerts €10-20.
The sculptor's own house and studio on the Roca Tarpeya cliff, willed to the city in 1953: granite portrait heads, the bust of his mother, drawings, and a garden terrace hanging directly over the Tagus gorge. Mon-Sat 10:00-19:00.
A 13th-century Mudéjar church with horseshoe arches resting on reused Visigothic capitals and Romanesque frescoes across the walls, displaying replicas of the Guarrazar votive crowns. Tue-Sat 10:00-14:00 and 16:00-18:00.
Four floors of stalls in a rebuilt building on Cuesta del Águila: Manchego from La Sagra dairies, carcamusas stew, Méntrida wines and a top-floor terrace facing the river. Open late; count on €15-25 a head for lunch.
The Cistercian convent that gave El Greco his first Spanish commission in 1577; cloistered nuns still sell almond cakes through a wooden turntable, and a hatch in the nave floor reveals the crypt holding the painter's remains.