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Arrival and information
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General orientation is pretty straightforward in Toledo, with the compact old city looped by the Tajo, and the new quarters across the bridges.
Getting to the city
, too, is easy, with nine trains per day (fewer on Sat & Sun) from Madrid Atocha (6.30am-8.30pm; 1hr 15min), plus buses every thirty minutes from the Estacion Sur (6.30am-10pm; 1hr 15min).
Toledo's train station , a marvellous 1919 mock-Mudejar creation, is some way out on the Paseo de la Rosa, a beautiful twenty-minute walk - take the left-hand fork off the dual carriageway and cross the Puente de Alcantara - or a bus ride (#5 or #6) to the heart of town. The bus station is on Avenida de Castilla la Mancha in the modern, lower part of the city; buses run frequently to Plaza de Zocodover, though if you take short cuts through the barrio at the bottom of the hill just inside the walls, it's a mere ten minutes to the Puerta Nueva de Bisagra.
If you're
driving
- and from Madrid there's little point if you're not going on elsewhere - be aware that parking in Toledo is a problem: the only 24-hour car park is on Paseo del Miradero, below the Plaza de Zocodover, and it's expensive (€11 per day). If your hotel hasn't got its own parking facilities (and with creeping pedestrianization, this is increasingly likely), leave your car outside the city walls at, say, Paseo de Merchan; remember that the city tow-truck is very active. Other useful information
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