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Walter Wood. A Corner of Spain
A Corner of Spain
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. GALICIA AND ITS PEOPLE
CHAPTER II. VIGO BAY AND HILLS
CHAPTER III. SPAIN'S JERUSALEM
CHAPTER IV. THINGS SEEN
CHAPTER V. THE ATLANTIC COAST AND THE FRONTIER
CHAPTER VI. LOCOMOTION
CHAPTER VII. MONDARIZ
CHAPTER VIII. GALICIA'S BURDEN-BEARERS
CHAPTER IX. AROSA BAY AND LA TOJA
CHAPTER X. CORUNNA AND ITS HERO
INDEX
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Walter Wood
Published by Good Press, 2019
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At last arriving at Pontevedra some kindness was shown them, and, on foot still, the whole band trudged on to Santiago. After visiting the shrine there they walked, as in duty bound, "with certain pilgrims from Ireland," to Padron, where beneath the waves they were shown the stone ship that had brought to the port the body of the apostle. Then to another shrine at Finisterre also they went on foot, and finally, their religious duty being ended, they proceeded on their matrimonial mission to Portugal.
The streets of Santiago can have changed but little since those far-off days of pious pilgrimage, when from all points of Christendom came the countless thousands to expiate sins or seek salvation. As the big omnibus from Cornes station bumps and rumbles into the streets of the ancient city, almost the only vehicle that ever invades them, a plunge is made into the centuries of long ago. Narrow slab-paved streets with dim arcades on both sides, above which houses of unimaginable antiquity are reared. Scallop shells adorn the fronts of many of them, indicating that they were formerly pilgrims' lodgings, and carved coats of arms with knightly casques above remind us that in the old days nobles, too, lived in the streets of the holy city. It looks almost an anachronism for men and women in modern garb to wander through these silent streets and to tread the very slabs worn thin by the pilgrim shoon of the centuries of faith so long ago.
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