Cosas De España: Illustrative of Spain And the Spaniards As They Are
Cosas De España: Illustrative of Spain And the Spaniards As They Are
Byrne, Wm. Pitt, Mrs., 1819-1894
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The sun-browned washers, with their bizarre garments mir- rored in the stream, and surrounded by the heaps of bright- Digitized by Google THE ALCAZAR. i59 coloured linen, formed a lively foreground to the receding banks, the picturesque old bridge and lofty cliif; its gibbet height (the Montfaugon of Logrono), thence called Befia grejera, literally the rendezvous of carrion crows, embraces the spot where the bones of the unfortunate Tordesillas (suspended with his head downwards) were lefli to ...whiten, when, in 1522, he was torn to pieces by the people, who could not wait to consummate their fury till they reached the place of execution. At a nearer point the trickling waters of Fuencisla, and the cypress of the barefooted Carmelites, with its traditional legend, — ^and beyond, the sunny panorama, of which the proud old Alcazar forms the centre of attraction, leave a pleasing impression of solemn Segovia, by no means inferior in interest to our other reminiscences of the venerable cities of Spain.
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