CHAPTER XXXII
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OLD ACQUAINTANCES.
Port and harbour--Sunday and fresh air--In the market-place--De Nevada protests--A curse of the country--In the days gone by--On the breakwater--Invaded tramcar--De Nevada confirmed--Another crusade needed--Plaza de Toros--In Sunday dress--Domestic interiors--When the play was o'er--Bull-ring at night--Fitful dreams--Fever--Maitre d'hotel prescribes--Magic effect--Depart for Saguntum--Before the days of Rome--Primitive town--Days of the Greeks--Attacked by Hannibal--Rebuilt by the Romans--Absent guardian--The hunchback--Reappears with custodian--Doors open--Moorish fortress--Fathomless cisterns--Sad procession--Weeping mourners--Key of Valencia--Miguella--Time heals all wounds--Proposes coffee--Proud and pleased--Scenes that remain--In Barcelona--Drawing to a close--Sorrow and regret--Many experiences--Our Espluga friends--Loretta's gratitude--In the Calle de Fernando--A last favour--Glories of Spain--Eastern benediction 481
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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INTERIOR OF ZARAGOZA CATHEDRAL _Frontispiece_
PEDRO 23
THE BOULEVARD: GERONA 31
ARCADES: GERONA 42
VIEW OF GERONA FROM THE STONE BRIDGE 43
BANKS OF THE ONAR: GERONA 47
APOSTLES' DOORWAY, CATHEDRAL: GERONA 51
A FRAGMENT OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF GERONA 59
STREETS IN GERONA 61, 101, 103, 123
ENTRANCE TO MILITARY CLOISTERS: GERONA 65
MILITARY CLOISTERS: GERONA 67
WAITING FOR THE VERDICT 69
CATHEDRAL CLOISTERS: GERONA 75, 109
INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL: GERONA 79
CLOISTERS OF SAN PEDRO: GERONA 81, 97
APOSTLES' DOORWAY AND BISHOP'S PALACE: GERONA 83
CHURCH OF SAN PEDRO: GERONA 85
DOORWAY OF SAN PEDRO: GERONA 89
DESECRATED CHURCH: GERONA 93
OUTSIDE THE WALLS: GERONA 95
OLD HOUSES ON THE RIVER: GERONA 119, 173
SAN FILIU, FROM WITHOUT THE WALLS: GERONA 163
A GERONA PATIO 169
MARKET PLACE: GERONA 177
THE RAMBLA: BARCELONA 187
INTERIOR OF CORO, GERONA CATHEDRAL 191
PULPIT AND STALLS, BARCELONA CATHEDRAL 195
TWILIGHT IN BARCELONA CATHEDRAL 199
SMALL CLOISTER OR PATIO: BARCELONA 205
CLOISTERS OF SANTA ANNA: BARCELONA 207
CLOISTERS OF SAN PABLO: BARCELONA 209
MONISTROL 217
CHURCH OF MONTSERRAT 231, 239
CLOISTERS OF MONTSERRAT 235
SALVADOR THE MONK 241
VALLEY OF MONTSERRAT 251
A FEW OF THE GIPSIES AT MONTSERRAT 255
MONS SERRATUS IN CLOUDLAND 259
MANRESA 267
MANRESA FROM THE RIVER: MORNING 269
MANRESA FROM THE HILL-SIDE: EVENING 273
ARCADES: LERIDA 291
LERIDA MULES 299
LERIDA 301
WINE-PRESSERS: LERIDA 303
OLD GATEWAYS: LERIDA 309
ENTRANCE TO POBLET 319
OLD CATHEDRAL: LERIDA 323
FAIR LUCIA'S HOUSE: ZARAGOZA 333, 337
BRIDGE AND CATHEDRAL OF EL PILAR: ZARAGOZA 339
AN OLD NOOK IN ZARAGOZA 345
NORTH WALL OF CATHEDRAL: ZARAGOZA 347
TOWER OF LA SEO: ZARAGOZA 351
INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL, SHOWING CORO AND ORGAN: ZARAGOZA 359
SOUTH-WEST EXTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL: TARRAGONA 373
EAST END OF CATHEDRAL, SHOWING NORMAN APSE: TARRAGONA 377
INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL: TARRAGONA 381
CLOISTERS: TARRAGONA 385, 393
SAN PABLO: TARRAGONA 397
AN OLD NOOK IN TARRAGONA 399
ROMAN AQUEDUCT, NEAR TARRAGONA 401
ON OUR WAY TO POBLET 415
ENTRANCE TO CLOISTERS: POBLET 421
MONKS' BURIAL GROUND: POBLET 425
RUINS OF POBLET 427, 441
CLOISTERS OF POBLET 431
POBLET, FROM THE VINEYARD 435
ANCIENT GATEWAY: VALENCIA 459
A STREET IN VALENCIA 461
RENAISSANCE TOWER: VALENCIA 469
MARKET PLACE, VALENCIA 473
LONJA DE SEDA: VALENCIA 475
SALON DE CORTES: AUDIENCIA 477
RUINS OF SAGUNTUM 487
BARCELONA 491
COURTYARD OF AUDIENCIA: BARCELONA 495
Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine; Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul[A] in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
BYRON.
GLORIES OF SPAIN.
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