Steps at Sunset, Toledo, Spain
Image by Bogdan Migulski
Toledo reached its zenith in the era of Islamic Caliphate. Historian P. de Gayangos writes:
The Muslim scientists of this age were not rivaled in the world. Perhaps among their greatest feats were the famous waterlocks of Toledo.
The old city is located on a mountaintop and it gets up to 150 degrees, surrounded on three sides by a bend in the Tagus River, and contains many historical sites, including the Alcázar, the cathedral (the primate church of Spain), and the Zocodover, a central market place.
Source: Wikipedia
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