Japanese crown prince's Spanish tour moves to Toledo (AFP)

TOLEDO, Spain (AFP) - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito's week-long tour of Spain on Saturday took him to Toledo, the country's picturesque former capital which sits on a hilltop overlooking the Tagus river. The Alcazar, a fort founded almost 1,000 years ago, was among the sites visited by the 48-year-old prince during his stop in the city located some 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of Madrid. He then visited the nearby town of Consuegra and its 11 white windmills which stand on a ridge above the town overlooking the plains of La Mancha. Local officials gave Naruhito six bottles of wine, as well as puppets representing the two main characters from Miguel de Cervantes' classic Don Quixote for his six-year-old daughter, Princess Aiko. Naruhito, heir to the world's oldest hereditary monarchy, is visiting Spain alone. His wife,... [read full story]