Cathedrals, Nuns, and Marzipan (Toledo Photos, Part I)

My mom came to visit for two days on her way back to the US from giving a talk in Israel.

We spent one of the days in Toledo. There are a lot of pictures after the jump.

The Cathedral:

I really liked the representation of Mary's assumption to Heaven in this altarpiece. 

The damage to the fresco is from the Civil War.

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In many of the convents in Toledo, the nuns produce and sell traditional marzipan treats.
This diorama is a slightly terrifying illustration of that process. With baby dolls.

And this is a model cathedral made out of marzipan (with my mom for scale and because it happened that shooting from an angle resulted in the least glare from the glass):