Map of Castille © Mark Wade

Town 26 km from San Sebastian, briefly the capital of Guipazcoa in the 19th Century. The oldest monuments in town today date only from the 16th Century.

Latitude: 43.14. Longitude: -2.08.

• Book I Chapter XXIII:

  Then Count Remon, Lord of Savoy, with the power of the King of France, gathered together twenty thousand knights and came beyond Tolosa, to hold the road against King Don Ferrando.

• Book I Chapter XXIV:

  These letters came to the King when he had past Tolosa, and he took counsel with the Cid and with his good men, and they advised that he should send two of his good men to the Pope, who should tell him to send a Cardinal with power to make a covenant, that this demand should never again be made upon Spain; and that persons from the Emperor and from the other Kings also should come to ratify this, and meanwhile he would abide where he was.

• Book I Chapter XXV:

  While this was doing the King abode where he was, beyond Tolosa; six months did he abide there.