Spain. Art-Remains And Art-Realities, Painters, Priests, And Princes: Being ...
Spain. Art-Remains And Art-Realities, Painters, Priests, And Princes: Being ...
Henry Willis Baxley
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curiosity. The climate is not as relaxing as that of Seville. The neighbouring mountains give it a more bracing quality. Cordova is now the point of departure for Lisbon, on this route of a tourist ; taking a branch railway of about fifty miles, with a few miles gap of Diligence drive, running nearly due north, and uniting with the great western road to Portugal; instead of going some hundreds of miles round by Manzanares, as formerly. And if Lisbon be olhitted, Merida, a mine of old Eoman ruin...s within the limits of Spain, deserves the attention at least of the antiquarian. This capital of ancient Lusitania has become an impoverished town of but a few thousand inhabitants ; and its Fondas — either that of Leon, or of Badajoz — ^must not be expected to furnish more than meagre bed and board. But out-of- door interest will withdraw attention from indoor wants, during the one or two days required for sight-seeing. The town being built on the right bank of the Guadiana, a gigantic bridge was here thrown across the river by the Emperor Trajan ; having a length of 2,575 feet, 33 feet above its bed, and resting upon 81 arches sup- ported by massive piers.
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