Palace · Toledo

Alcázar de Toledo

Today: Alcázar de Toledo (Museo del Ejército), Toledo

Place: Toledo
Kind: Palace
Built: c. 1535 to 1598
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The fortress that Charles V had remade in 1535 as a compact building around an arcaded courtyard, with Alonso de Covarrubias, Francisco de Villalpando and Juan de Herrera; the staircase was finished under Philip II. It burned in 1710, 1810 and 1887, and in 1936 the fighting of the siege left it almost destroyed, so most of what is seen now is reconstruction of 1939 to 1957. It houses the Army Museum and the Library of Castilla-La Mancha.

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