El Puente del Arzobispo

El Puente del Arzobispo owes its existence to the great stone bridge across the Tagus ordered by Pedro Tenorio, Archbishop of Toledo, in the late fourteenth century. The bridge provided a crossing between the lands of Toledo and Extremadura, and a settlement grew beside it. Potters made the town another centre of the ceramics for which the region became known. Its glazed earthenware developed alongside that of neighbouring Talavera de la Reina.