European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Is gub  Toledo officials say the City needs financial Aid to help ii remain a living City As Well As a monumental Symbol of a time when three of the world s major religious cultures thrived there together. Renewed efforts to preserve by Susan Linnee associated Pressw Hen Mario Muelas Emo Goa from the construction site in the evening he walks to his car i rough narrow alleys where christians moslem and jews onco rubbed shoulders then drives Lour centuries Home to nearby Madrid the 45 year old architect is working in Iho vast 16th Century san it Taro May Tyr Convent Complex drawing up and executing plans to turn it nto a modern government administrative censer some Days Vixen i leave j led As if i Momo Tjing Iron he 15lh or to Glt Century Don t know where i am Mulo Assaid surveying one of three Cloist de patios that form the Core of the Lormor dominican Convent Ihal expanded he Ufa in heart of Toledo As the roman Catholic Rader grew in Potjer and comprises an area of 150.699 Square Leet the transit Ormarion of the Convent which has also served As an army Barracks stables Home or the elderly and Oliph Onago is the largest project be undertaken in Jho preservation and Resl oration of Toledo a once strategic City on a Hill Whoso origins go Back to the roman Colony of hispania like Venice and Fez Toledo has been declared part of the world s Cus Lorai to Lemony by Enesco and As in the Casp Otio a the italian and moroccan cities Toledo needs Ronic than dual Aralios to help it remain a living City As Well As a monumental Symbol of a time when Thiee of the Weikl s major religious cuu ures thu Vod Lack Ota specific plan has hindered Lund raising abroad to Mon to woo i together on a Rocky outcropping of the la Mancha Plain Rose Anne Bartholomew life of outgoing us ambassador id Spain Reginald Bartholomew Calls Toledo Oneal tha places   lived successfully can paying inc City s Orriner mix to thai of Jerusalem and Beirut in their. Liner Days or. Bartholomew. The Only non Spanish member of Iho. Board of directors of to year did Toledo foundation which seems to mobilize be Inlo Resl governor Neil supper and Independent financial backing necessary to save Iha cily. Hopes to set up a u 5 Branch then she returns to Washington. The group has just moved into its Headquarters in a room at one end of the medieval 51 Mamm Bridge renovated by Toledo youths employed at a restoration workshop school set up by Iho regional government of Castille la Mancha convents like san Porto Martyr Ato a key element in the future of  arc  old waited portion of the City most were Buzil to House at least 400 cloistered nuns each but now have less than 20 inhabitants most of whom Are Over 65 since the Spanish stale confiscated much of use Church s property m 1kh the convents have fallen on hard limes. The rehabilitation of san Pedro Martyr mutes says the dominicans meant it Anginal in As an administrative Center for some aspects of Iho Spanish inquisition when they opened n m 1540 is bldg Ald Al 110 million the Spanish government s Interior and Economy ministries Are picking up the a rather than building something Sis Gui Sihu Olla 12th-Cantury synagogue recalls that Toledo once was a major Center of jewish life and culture. Ney in Toledo s Industrial Park across the Tagus Ivor another c on ont san Juan i la pen Tancia. Has been turned into an inner National studies Center Lor North and South american students sponsored by the University of Minnesota and the Spanish Jose Ortega y Gasset. Foundation the Center has served As the setting for several Tri cultural congresses roman catholics and jews lived under moslem Rule when the moors incorporated Toledo to the Cordoba emirate in 711 before it became the capital of an Independent Moush kingdom in 1012 tha cily was reconquered by a Christian King in 1085 and reached its goofy under the 1252-1284 reign of Alfonso a Tho Wise Al the height of us fule Toledo Bonamo themos important jewish censer m spam a country known in hebrew As so Narad moorish artisans using Brick construction carved Wood sculpted plaster and painted Ulics Buill the Transito and Santa Maria a 6 Anca synagogues. Then in 1492 Queen Isabella m Ancylon to consolidate Fier position on the iberian Peninsula signed an edict banishing All moslem and Jov Sirom spam As part of Tho commemoration of the sooth anniversary in 1992 of Iho first voyage of Christopher Page the stars and stripes monday a