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TOLEDO, Spain : 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, Crown Princess Masako, is not accompanying him on the trip, which ends July 22.
The princess, a 44-year-old former diplomat educated at Harvard and Oxford, has has made few public appearances since 2003 as she suffers from what the palace calls "adjustment disorder."
Her last official trip abroad was in December 2002, when the royal couple visited Australia and New Zealand.
Naruhito is to travel to the northern city of Zaragoza on Sunday to visit Expo 2008, an international exposition on water and sustainable development, an issue of longstanding interest for the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
- AFP /ls
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