The deal is that once year, for one week only (for the duration of the Corpus Christi celebrations, Toledo’s biggest annual event), a number of private houses open their patios (inner courtyards) for the general public to mooch around in.
I wasn’t intending to go this year, but then my friend Cristina, who I was having lunch with today, suggested that it would make for a fun photo hunt. And so it did 🙂
There was even one that had been turned into a private art gallery! Unfortunately, none of the pics I took of that one is in any way presentable.
A tile mural of Toledo
I took this one a few weeks ago. It’s the patio of an important historic building called Casa Del Judio (House of the Jew). My friend Olga (posing like a good sport) grew up here, and her mother still lives there
Cristina, my patio tour accomplice
Lady Of The Cakes 
I love that you get all your friends to get involved in the madness;)
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They keep dragging me round with them. I’ve no control over this.
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Yeah yeah 😉 Good to see you’ve recovered from my amazingly insightful post anyway! Took longer than the 30 minutes you claimed though – very unGerman of you. Tut tut…
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I got distracted by photo faffing…
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You’ve got quite a good selection here. I’ll try my best to put up some of mine soon 🙂 (It does reflect)
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Yours will be so much better! The last one didn’t turn out well at all. Except for the painting with the weird fish heads, lol.
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Scary fishes… They really fricked me out, lol I’ll put up some of those. I think out of the thousands I took at least one must be decent.
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What a marvelous idea, I would love to see these. It’s a bit like the Open Garden scheme over here.
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Sadly, there were noticeably fewer than last year, coz the residents of the pretty patio buildings can’t be bothered with the hassle…
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I had no idea about the courtyards and patios being opened in Toledo during the Corpus Christi festival.
Your photos have captured them well 🙂
Shame there were fewer than last year – you don’t think it will turn into another version of Cordoba’s Flower Fetival in their Patios, then?
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I didn’t even know about Cordoba!
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Love these photos! Everything’s so colourful. I especially like the horse.
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Yes, the horse! I have it from six different angles, lol. Wearing a jumper in that colour today 🙂
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Beautiful! Especially that last pic. Gorgeous.
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That little well would look very nice in your garden 🙂
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