E-text prepared by Chuck Greif and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the numerous original illustrations. See 31966-h.htm or 31966-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31966/31966-h/31966-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31966/31966-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/cathedralsofspai00gadeiala CATHEDRALS OF SPAIN [Illustration: Photo by J. Lacoste, Madrid NEW CATHEDRAL] [Illustration: SALAMANCA] CATHEDRALS OF SPAIN by JOHN ALLYNE GADE Fully Illustrated [Illustration] Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1911 Copyright, 1911, by John A. Gade All Rights Reserved Published February 1911 TO THE LAST CHÂTELAINE OF FROGNER HOVEDGAARD IN REVERENCE, GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION PREFACE In the last dozen years many English books on Spain have appeared. They have dealt with their subject from the point of view of the artist or the historian, the archæologist, the politician, or the mere sight-seer. The student of architecture, or the traveler, desiring a more intimate or serious knowledge of the great cathedrals, has had nothing to consult since Street published his remarkable book some forty years ago. There have been artistic impressions, as well as guide-book recitations, by the score. Some have been excellent, though few have surpassed the older ones of Dumas, père, and Gautier, or Baedeker's later guide-book. A year ago appeared the second and last volume of Señor Lamperez y Romea's "Historia de la Arquitectura Cristiana Española en la Edad Media," a work so comprehensive and scholarly that it practically stands alone.