The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain

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Nathaniel Armstrong Wells. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain

The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain

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PREFACE

ENGRAVED PLATES

WOOD ENGRAVINGS

PICTURESQUE ANTIQUITIES

SPAIN

PART I

LETTER I

TO MRS. C—— R

LETTER II

ROUTE TO SPAIN THROUGH FRANCE

LETTER III

THE BASQUE PROVINCES

LETTER IV

ARRIVAL AT BURGOS. CATHEDRAL

LETTER V

TOMB OF THE CID. CITADEL

LETTER VI

CARTUJA DE MIRAFLORES. CONVENT OF LAS HUELGAS

LETTER VII

ROUTE TO MADRID. MUSEO

LETTER VIII

PICTURESQUE POSITION OF TOLEDO. FLORINDA

LETTER IX

CATHEDRAL OF TOLEDO

LETTER X

CAFÉS. WEDDING CEREMONY. CATHEDRAL CONTINUED. ALCAZAR HOSPITAL OF SANTA CRUZ. CONVENT OF LA CONCEPTION. MYSTERIOUS CAVERN. CONVENT OF SANTA FE, OR OF SANTIAGO. SONS-IN-LAW OF THE CID

LETTER XI

STREETS OF TOLEDO. EL AMA DE CASA. MONASTERY OF SAN JUAN DE LOS REYES. PALACE OF DON HURTADO DE MENDOZA

LETTER XII

ARAB MONUMENTS. PICTURES. THE PRINCESS GALIANA. ENVIRONS

LETTER XIII

CASTLES OF ALMONACID, GUADAMUR, MONTALBAN, AND ESCALONA. TORRIJOS

LETTER XIV

VALLADOLID. SAN PABLO. COLLEGE OF SAN GREGORIO. ROUTE BY SARAGOZA

PART II

SEVILLE. LETTER XV

JOURNEY TO SEVILLE. CHARACTER OF THE SPANIARDS. VALLEY OF THE RHONE

LETTER XVI

VOYAGE TO GIBRALTAR

LETTER XVII

CADIZ. ARRIVAL AT SEVILLE

LETTER XVIII

THE ARABS IN SPAIN. ALCAZAR OF SEVILLE

LETTER XIX

CATHEDRAL OF SEVILLE

LETTER XX

SPANISH BEGGARS. HAIRDRESSING. THE GIRALDA. CASA DE PILATOS. MONASTERIES. ITALICA

LETTER XXI

PRIVATE HOUSES, AND LOCAL CUSTOMS IN SEVILLE

LETTER XXII

INQUISITION. COLLEGE OF SAN TELMO. CIGAR MANUFACTORY. BULL CIRCUS. EXCHANGE. AYUNTAMIENTO

Footnote

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Nathaniel Armstrong Wells

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Of the sixty leagues which separate this town from Bayonne, forty afford the most perfect example of monotony. One sighs for the Steppes of Russia. These are the well-known Landes, consisting of uncultivated sands and morass; now covered league after league with the unvarying gloom of the pine and cork forests,—now dreary and bare,—but ever presenting to the wearied eye a wide interminable waste, replete with melancholy and desolation. It is true, that a day of pouring rain was not calculated to set off to advantage the qualities of such a region, and should in strict justice be admitted in evidence before passing condemnation on the Landes.

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