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The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain: Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville.Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong

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The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain: Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville.

Name: The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain: Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville.
Author: Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong

Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong

Architecture -- Spain; Architecture, Islamic; Art, Islamic; Spain -- Antiquities

One more remark is necessary. The letters from Seville, which form the
second of the two parts into which the volume is divided, although
placed last in order of succession, date in reality from an earlier
period than the rest; and even from a different tour, as will appear
from the description of the route. They were addressed to various
individuals, whereas those forming the first part were all written to
the same person. They are thus placed with a view to geographical order
and clearness, and to a sort of unity, which appeared advisable in the
subject of a volume. The two excursions having been separated by an
interval of three years, should alterations have taken place during that
period in the places described, the above circumstance not being borne
in mind might lead to an appearance of chronological inaccuracy in the
descriptions, although there is not much probability of the existence of
such changes.

LONDON. _December 1845._

CONTENTS.

                                                              PAGE

PART I.

LETTER I.

TO MRS. C----R                                                   1

LETTER II.

ROUTE TO SPAIN THROUGH FRANCE                                    9

LETTER III.

THE BASQUE PROVINCES                                            15

LETTER IV.

ARRIVAL AT BURGOS. CATHEDRAL.                                   28

LETTER V.

TOMB OF THE CID. CITADEL.                                       52

LETTER VI.

CARTUJA DE MIRAFLORES. CONVENT OF LAS HUELGAS.                  70

LETTER VII.

ROUTE TO MADRID. MUSEO.                                         78

LETTER VIII.

PICTURESQUE POSITION OF TOLEDO. FLORINDA.                      103

LETTER IX.

CATHEDRAL OF TOLEDO                                            121

LETTER X.

CAFES. WEDDING CEREMONY. CATHEDRAL CONTINUED. ALCAZAR HOSPITAL
OF SANTA CRUZ. CONVENT OF LA CONCEPTION. MYSTERIOUS CAVERN.
CONVENT OF SANTA FE, OR OF SANTIAGO. SONS-IN-LAW OF THE CID.   143

LETTER XI.

STREETS OF TOLEDO. EL AMA DE CASA. MONASTERY OF SAN JUAN DE
LOS REYES. PALACE OF DON HURTADO DE MENDOZA.                   172

LETTER XII.

ARAB MONUMENTS. PICTURES. THE PRINCESS GALIANA. ENVIRONS.      195

LETTER XIII.

CASTLES OF ALMONACID, GUADAMUR, MONTALBAN, AND ESCALONA.
TORRIJOS.                                                      214

LETTER XIV.

VALLADOLID. SAN PABLO. COLLEGE OF SAN GREGORIO. ROUTE BY
SARAGOZA.                                                      240

PART II.--SEVILLE.

LETTER XV.

JOURNEY TO SEVILLE. CHARACTER OF THE SPANIARDS. VALLEY OF
THE RHONE.                                                     259

LETTER XVI.

VOYAGE TO GIBRALTAR                                            288

LETTER XVII.

CADIZ. ARRIVAL AT SEVILLE.                                     308

LETTER XVIII.

THE ARABS IN SPAIN. ALCAZAR OF SEVILLE.                        315

LETTER XIX.

CATHEDRAL OF SEVILLE                                           350

LETTER XX.

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