Impressions of Spain

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Albert Frederick Calvert. Impressions of Spain

Impressions of Spain

Table of Contents

PREFACE

Introductory Chapter

Madrid

El Escorial

Barcelona

On the East Coast

A Peep into Murcia

Toledo and Cordova

The Castiles

Granada and the Alhambra

Seville

In Southern Andalusía

The Basque Provinces

In Northern Spain

Bull-fighting

The Picture Gallery, Madrid

Viva el Rey

Mining

The Copper Mines of Escurial

The Huercal Copper Cobalt Mines

The Rio Rimal Copper Mines

The Coruna Copper Mines

Tin.—The Mines of Beariz

The Spanish Tin Corporation’s Mines

The Pontevedra Tin Mines

The Paramo Gold Mines

The Kingston Gold Mines

The Moraleja Gold-bearing Alluvial Concession

The Lugo Goldfields

Silver-Lead. The Santa Maria Mining Company, Limited, Silver-Lead Mines (Badajoz, Spain)

Coal

INDEX

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Albert Frederick Calvert

Published by Good Press, 2021

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and increased its notable buildings in an almost marvellous manner. The present Plaza de Toros, the magnificent viaduct across the Calle de Segovia, the Markets, the Hippodrome, and the Parque de Madrid are all the creation of some twenty-five years. And as Madrid has grown, the Madrileño has advanced. He, and more particularly she, has progressed at the expense of the picturesque. English women are the beneficiaries of French fashions, because they have no style of their own—no peculiar modes or costumes that became them peculiarly as a race. Somebody once said that an English woman was only a French woman badly dressed. It was a libel; but, notwithstanding, she has lent truth to the definition by her anxiety to remedy the defection. The English woman who covets the distinction of being well dressed buys her gowns in Paris; but, in so doing, she improves, she does not alter, her style of costumes. She gains in effectiveness without the sacrifice of individuality. But the Spanish woman, though having something to gain by this Parisian attachment, has something also to lose. She had her “velo”—her coquettish adornment with its rose fastening, and her fan. With these, which suited her Spanish face to perfection, she was characteristic, fascinating, adorable; but French millinery demanded the renunciation of the “velo,” and taught her to forget the witchery of the fan and the grace of the natural rose; and artists, experts, even the ordinary, impressionable Englishman without æsthetic tendencies, may be allowed a regret for the decay of a national means to a beautiful end.

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