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Cathedral cities of Spain (1909)

Collins, W. W. (William Wiehe), b. 1862 · London : Heinemann; New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 72

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a—the Cathedral. I could not at first entry grasp the size of thisthe second largest church of any in existenceComing suddenly into the cool shade of its manypillared avenues, I felt as if transplanted into thesilent depths of a great forest. In every directionI looked the trunks of huge trees… … CORDOVA floor, which only made the deception greater by itsresemblance to the needles of a pine-wood or thedead leaves of autumn. Then the organ boomedout a note and the deep bass of a priest in the coroshattered the illusion. The first Mosque built on the site of LeovigildsVisigothic Cathedral,…

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