In this section, Go-Toledo.com offers a brief insight to the culture and history of this unique city.
The first written historic document which mentions Toledo dates from the Roman period,
a testimony of the conquest of the city in the year 193 BC, when it was already an important Celtiberian city.
The Roman historian Tito Livio mentioned the city of Toletum, a term whose
origin would be Tollitum, meaning "raised aloft".
During this era, Toledo became an important urban centre and evidence of this period include the ruins of a monumental circus,
and the ruins of the water supply system with the dam wall, also some remains of the aqueduct across the deep ravine of the
Tagus River.
Following the decay and fall of the Roman empire at the hands of peoples from
the North of Europe, the city was conquered in the 5th century AD
by the northern barbarians and in the 6th century, the Visigoths moved their court to Toledo.
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Visigoth Period
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