Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes

This site came with a good audio guide and what Nancy (who seems by her own admission to have a sieve of a brain when it comes to these places) will be able to recall that it is significant for the fab duo of F and I who planned to be buried there as it was the capital of Spain. In the end after expulsion of the Moors from Granada they changed their minds.

The Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes is an Isabelline style Franciscan monastery. It was founded by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile to commemorate the birth of their son, Prince John, and their victory at the Battle of Toro in 1476 over the army of Afonso V of Portugal. Toledo was chosen as the site for building the monastery due to its central geographic location and because it had been the capital of the ancient Visigoth kingdom, symbolically reconstituted by Isabella and Ferdinand with the restoration of the lost unity of Spain, through the union of Castile with Aragon.Read more