Collins, W. W. (William Wiehe), b. 1862 · London : Heinemann; New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 258
the arms of Ferdinand andIsabella, and covered with sculptured heraldry. Santa Maria la Blanca, originally a Jewishsynagogue, is in the Mudejar style, and has somecharming arabesques, with a fine cedar ceiling saidto be of wood from the trees at Lebanon. Almostopposite—we are in the Juderia, or… … TOLEDO style, it is almost a better piece of architecturethan Santa Maria la Blanca. Levi lived next door,in the house known now as La Casa del Greco,that painter having occupied it during his residencein Toledo. The house and synagogue are con-nected by a secret passage from the vaults of…
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