The Alcázar of Toledo is a historical fortification of a civil and military nature, located in the highest part of the Spanish city of Toledo.

Its privileged location has made it a place of great strategic value and this is how the various peoples who settled there sensed it.

Once used as a Roman palace in the 3rd century, it was restored under the reign of Charles I and his son Philip II in the 1540s.

Most of the Alcazar was rebuilt or restored between 1939 and 1957 after the siege of the Alcazar in the Spanish Civil War.

In the 3rd century it was a Roman palace where, after the conquest of the city, they established the Praetorium, the seat of the magistrate or praetor.

During the Visigothic period, King Leovigild established it as his capital in 568.

From then on, the surroundings were used for "royal residences" which were completed with the construction of the "praetorian" churches, named for their proximity to the praetorium, such as that of Santa Leocadia. It is believed that in this church they are buried, flanking the tomb of the saint, the kings Wamba and Recesvinto, which - together with Chindasvinto - created the Fuero Juzgo.

From the era of Muslim domination, the works begun by Abd al-Rhaman II in 836 and by Ab al Rhaman III in 932 stand out.

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) it was used by the then Colonel José Moscardó as a defensive and resistance point for the Civil Guard and was almost totally destroyed by the troops loyal to the Second Republic and the militiamen, during a siege that lasted seventy days, from July 21 to September 27, 1936.