The El Greco Museum occupies a house in the Judería (Jewish Quarter) near where the painter reportedly lived and worked in the early 17th century. The museum is not his actual house — that was demolished long ago — but was reconstructed in the early 20th century to approximate the setting. It holds a significant collection of his work, including a famous series of the twelve Apostles and a version of his celebrated View and Plan of Toledo.
El Greco is the essential Toledo artist. His paintings have the same qualities as the city itself: compressed, intense, charged with spiritual feeling, lit from an unusual angle. To understand Toledo through his eyes is to understand something important about why this place made a profound impression on everyone who passed through it during the Counter-Reformation. The museum also has period furniture and works by his contemporaries.
The museum is close to the Sinagoga del Tránsito and Santa María la Blanca — all three are within a five-minute walk, making the Jewish Quarter an obvious morning itinerary.