The 1885 cholera epidemic Historical milestone · Lillo, Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo Image of Lillo, not of the place itself. The last great cholera epidemic to sweep Spain struck Lillo in 1885, when the municipality had around six hundred households. The outbreak left its mark on the parish registers and in the memory of a town then in full agricultural growth. 1885 Photo: Starkiller 01 (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Lillo