Within the copious correspondence that the German writer Rainer María Rilke maintained with his friend and teacher, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, one in particular stands out, where he told him that Toledo continued to be the capital of forgotten empires.

Toledo, certainly, continues to be, as a city that was one of the Three Cultures of the Book - Christian, Muslim and Jewish - a place where legends continue to be active, barely distorted by the passing of the centuries and the slow flow of a river , the Tagus, which, as sometimes happens with the sea, occasionally returns many of those treasures that it once swallowed.

Next to it, located on the same riverbank, at the end of whose slope the house that belonged to Miguel de Cervantes's wife still stands, standing on its old foundations, you can see on the left, the famous Templar castle of San Servando, today converted into a youth hostel and to the right, a curious rock, which due to its unequivocal shape of a dromedary, receives the name of Peña del Moro. Both in one place and in another, the legends speak of supernatural wonders, ancient enchantments and tragedies long forgotten in the dark meanders of history.

But the most attractive thing, perhaps, is that in that same place, where once stubborn fishermen collected scraps of lost culture on the hooks of their fishing lines, a bewitching colony of geese welcomes visitors, with the graceful and perfect silhouette of their shadows. reflecting on a cobblestone, whose foundations are sinking more and more, in the land of a riverbank, which, still peaceful in the sunlight, is always seduced by the rising of a river, where that fantastic story is told that if any Once, any of the geese that populate it loses its shadow, the entire city and its inhabitants will disappear forever and will never be heard from again.

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