the largest apse there is still preserved the original altar table of one solid piece of stone. Santo Domingo, now an archæological museum, was once the principal necropolis, the Westminster Abbey, of the province of Pontevedra. As far back as the close of the fourteenth century, illustrious men left money to it in their wills, and the command that they should be interred within its precincts. The sepulchral effigies of _Don Payo Gomez de Sotomayor_ and his wife the Infanta de Hungria, _Donna Juana_, are still there in their Gothic niches. Don Payo is coated with mail, his head is covered by a helmet, and his sword is by his side. The family of _Sotomayor_ is one of the oldest in Spain, and the chapel in which their effigies lie was founded by them. _Payo Gomez de Sotomayor_ was one of the two ambassadors sent by King Enrique III. of Castille to the court of Tamerlane in 1402; the other was _Hernan Sanchez Palazuelos_: they helped Tamerlane in his fight against the Turks. Tamerlane loaded them with presents, and also presented them with two beautiful captives (one of whom was said to be a member of the royal family of Hungary), whom they eventually married. Donna Juana, whose effigy is in Santo Domingo, was the captive who became the wife of Payo Gomez. On her tomb is an escutcheon in which the arms of the Sotomayors are united to those of the house of Hungary. Close by there is also the effigy of Don Suero Gomez de Sotomayor, the son of the ambassador to Persia.[255] The ruins of Santo Domingo rise in the midst of a modern town; on two sides they overlook the street, and on a third side a huge grammar school for boys is being erected. The plot on which the ruins stands is shut in with a railing, and has been turned to the best possible use, for it now serves as an Open-air Archæological Museum. Rows of Roman [Illustration: OLD JEWISH QUARTER, PONTEVEDRA] [Illustration: THE RUINS OF SANTO DOMINGO, NOW AN OPEN-AIR ARCHÆOLOGICAL MUSEUM, PONTEVEDRA PHOTO. SHOWS MILESTONES FOUND ON OLD ROMAN ROADS]