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The Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes is a Franciscan monastery founded by the Catholic Monarchs to mark the Battle of Toro of 1476 and built from 1477 to 1504 to plans by Juan Guas. Its Isabelline Gothic church and two-storey cloister are open to visitors, and chains of freed Christian captives hang on its walls.

The Church of Santo Tomé is a parish church in Toledo's old town, rebuilt in the early 14th century by Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo, Lord of Orgaz, who turned the minaret of an earlier mosque into its Mudéjar bell tower. A chapel at the back holds El Greco's The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586–1588), painted for his tomb.

Toledo Cathedral, the Primate Cathedral of Saint Mary, is a Gothic church begun in 1226 on the site of the city's main mosque; the vaults of its central nave were closed in 1493. Inside are the Baroque Transparente altarpiece by Narciso Tomé, a carved choir and a sacristy hung with paintings by El Greco, including El Expolio.