The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable RuinsAllen, Grant
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The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins
Allen, Grant
Europe, Southern -- Description and travel; Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel
Barcelona, 21, 95, 123;
eulogy of Cervantes, the promenades and the people, 61;
funerals, and the flower-market, 62;
streets, Rambla, and cathedral, 65;
Palais de Justice, and Parliament House, 66;
Palace of the kings of Aragon, 67;
museum, park, and monuments to Prim and Columbus, 69;
bird's-eye view, Fort of Montjuich, Mont Tibidaho, 70;
cemetery and mode of burial, 71;
festival of All Saints, 72;
Catalonia, and the church of Santa Maria del Mar, 74;
organ in cathedral, and the suburbs, 77;
Gracia, 77;
Sarria, 78;
Barceloneta, 79;
Academy of Arts, schools, music, the University, and workmen's clubs,
80;
Archæological Society, primary education, and places of amusement, 82;
history of, 83;
trade, healthful properties, and charitable institutions, 84;
churches, convents, electric lighting, population, and Protestantism,
86;
democracy, and holidays of, 87;
Mariolatry, 88;
Caballaro, 89;
climate, 90;
hotels, 90;
good looks of the men and women, the police, 92;
progressive tendencies, the post-office and passports, 93
Barco, Hamilcar, founder of Barcelona, 82
Barral des Baux, 121
Barthélemy, 122
Baths of Barcelona, 90;
of Cleopatra, 250;
of Caratraca, 44
Bay of Biscay, 1
"Belgium of the East," The, 251
Bellet, Le, 139
Belzunce, Monseigneur, and the plague at Marseilles, 113, 114
Bentinck, Lord W., and his attack on Genoa, 166
Bérenger, 122
Berenice, and the Temple of Arsenoe, 252
Bighi, 288
Boabdil, last king of Granada, 59
Boccaccio, and the church of St. Lorenzo, Naples, 232
Bordighera, 158
Boron, Mont, 125
Bouchard, M., and the Egyptian stone at Rosetta, 257
Britain, and Tangier, 4;
and the acquisition of Gibraltar, 22
Browning, Robert, and Gibraltar, 6
Bruèys, Admiral, defeated by Nelson at Aboukir Bay, 254
Buena Vista, Gibraltar, 14, 23
Bull-fights at Barcelona, 82, 87;
at Malaga, 54
Burgundians, The, 109
Burmola, 289
Byng, Rear-Admiral, and the siege of Gibraltar, 22
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Cabo de Bullones, Spanish name of Ceuta, 26
Cadiz Bay, 6
Café at Gibraltar, 11
Cagliari, 96
Cairo, 258;
rising of the Nile, 260
Cala Dueira, 271
Calpe, Rock of (Gibraltar), 2, 14
Camaldoli hills, 326
Campyses, at Pelusium, 262
Canal, Grand, at Venice, 222-228
Cannes, 125, 130;
"a Babel set in Paradise," 150;
principal streets, and origin, 151;
fortifications of Vauban, and Roman remains, 152
Capraja, 207
Capri, 326;
changes in appearance, 334;
its fascination, 339;
historical associations, 340;
palaces of Tiberias, 341;
its beautiful women, 342;
Blue Grotto, 343
Carabacel, 127, 138
Caratraca, Baths of, 44, 50
Carinthia, Dukes of, 233
Carlos, Don, and the rising in Barcelona, 84
Carnival at Nice, 133
Carqueyranne, 147
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