The story of this place
Doménikos Theotokópoulos, the Greek from Crete known as El Greco, settled in Toledo around 1577 and never left, painting saints and skies with a strange, upward-straining verticality that anticipated modern art by three centuries. Rejected at Philip II's court, he found freedom among Toledo's clergy and intellectuals. Nearby hangs his masterpiece, 'The Burial of the Count of Orgaz' in the church of Santo Tomé, where earthly mourners give way to a shimmering heaven. The museum, created in the early 1900s in a house near his lost residence, gathers his works and evokes the world of the artist who made a Castilian city eternal on canvas.