You may see there her statue in marble, sculptured by Marna and Morales. The hill called the Sacro Monte is a curious memorial of human credulity. In 1594 one Francisco Hernandez reported to the Archbishop Don Pedro Vaca de Castro that he had discovered the relics of several local martyrs in the caves here. A church of no architectural merit was raised on the spot, and became a place of pilgrimage--the evidence that the martyrs referred to had ever existed being meanwhile wanting. Within the church are preserved some leaden books, inscribed in Arabic characters, and supposed to contain the acts, of the saints. These works were the subject of a furious controversy in the seventeenth century. The caves are interesting on account of their natural peculiarities, and were quite probably catacombs used by the early Christians of Illiberis. Some rocks may be noticed, in parts worn away by the repeated kisses of devotees. There is a superstition that the person who kisses the stone the first time will marry within the year, and that a second kiss will ensure to those already married an early dissolution of the conjugal tie. On the opposite side of the city, also in the outskirts, is a little Mohammedan oratory, now disfigured and restored beyond recognition. It is called the Ermita de San Sebastian, and was the place where Boabdil gave up the keys of Granada to Ferdinand and Isabel. When we walk through the streets of the modern Granada, with its tawdry churches and commonplace private houses, it does not seem that the city has gained much by its change of masters. But its decline was not at least very marked till many years after the Reconquest. The French invasion, and still more the ruin of the silk industry, completely undermined the prosperity of the place. During the last century it lost its rank as the seat of a Captain General. But a new day is dawning for the proudest city of the Moor, as for all Spain. Granada is content no longer to brood over its splendid past; indeed, its citizens seem to prize but lightly the monuments of those days. There is a general appearance of wealth and elegance about the promenaders on the broad, well-lighted paseos; and, thanks to the newly introduced manufacturing industry of beetroot sugar, the Vega has already resumed the flourishing smiling aspect it wore when a Mohammedan amir called it his and the cry of the muezzin was heard from a hundred minarets. PLAN OF GRANADA REFERENCE TO PLAN OF GRANADA BUILDINGS AND PLACES 1. Hospital of San Lázaro. 2. Church of San Juan de Letran. 3. Hermitage of Santo Cristo de Yedra. 4. San Bruno and the Cartuja. 5. The Sacro Monte. 6. The Holy Tomb. 7. Cavalry Barracks, and San Jerónimo. 8. San Juan de Dios. 9. San Juan de Dios (Street). 10. Lunatic Asylum. 11. Bull Ring. (Plaza de Toros.) 12. San Ildefonso, and Avenue del Triunfo. 13. Pay Office. 14. Gate of Elvira. 15. Gate of Monaita. 16. San Andrés. 17. Children’s Hospital.