calles que conducen desde la Puerta del Sol[4] á Zocodover,[5] con el
choque de sus armas y el ruidoso golpear de los cascos de sus corceles
que sacaban chispas de los pedernales, entraron en la ciudad hasta
unos cien dragones de aquellos altos, arrogantes y fornidos, de que
todavía nos hablan con admiración nuestras abuelas.

[Footnote 1: alcázar. See p. 61, note 3.]

[Footnote 2: Carlos V. Charles V, the son of Philip of Burgundy by
Joanna (daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella), and grandson of the
emperor Maximilian 1, was bom at Ghent, Flanders, February 24,1500,
and died in the monastery of Yuste, Estremadura, Spain, September
21, 1558. He became king of Spain (as Charles 1) in 1516, and
emperor in 1520. In 1556 he abdicated the government of the former
in favor of his son Philip II, and of the latter in favor of his
brother Ferdinand I.]

[Footnote 3: la casa de Consejos. The _Casa de_ Consejos ('City
Hall'), _Casa Consistorial_, or _Ayuntamiento_, by which various
names it is known, is a building erected in the fifteenth century
and remodeled in the seventeenth. It has a handsome Greco-Roman
façade in striking' contrast with the Gothic architecture of the
cathedral, which stands upon the same plaza (see p. 73, note 2).]

[Footnote 4: la Puerta del Sol. A charming old Moorish gateway with
horseshoe arches between two towers, built about 1100, and recently
restored. It is one of the most impressive and beautiful of Toledo's
monuments.]

[Footnote 5: Zocodover. See p. 64, note 1.]