A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain And Readers At Home
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101), in every direction. For excursionsto the smaller towns, each locality has its _Hostal_, its inn of call, at which the _Galeras_, _Carrabas_, and muleteers are always to be heardof. These matters changing from day to day are pointed out in the"Guia, " and may be learnt of the waiters or at the British consulate. The best works on Barcelona are the '_Historia de los Condes_, ' Fro. De Diago, fo. , Barcelona, 1603; the '_Trofeos y Antigüedades_, ' Juande Dios Lopez, 4to. , Barcelona, 1639; F...lorez, 'E. S. ' xxix. ;'_Disertacion_, ' Isidoro Bosarte, 8vo. , Madrid, 1786; Ponz, xiv. ; andthe admirable '_Memorias_' and '_Libro del Consulado_' of Capmany. Those who are in a hurry and wish at once to commence sight-seeing mayturn on to p. 724. Barcelona, according to local annalists, was a Laletanian city, andfounded, of course, by Hercules, and 400 years to a day before Rome. Itwas certainly refounded 235 B. C. By Amilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, and thence called Barcino. It became the Carthago Nova of the N.
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