Castles and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces, including also Foix, Roussillon and Béarn (1907)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L.C. Page & Company · leaf 188
nest in fact and fancy. Ingrandiose melancholy it sits and regards thesweeping plains of Eoussillon as it did nearlya thousand years ago. The storms of winter,and the ravages incident to time have used itrather badly. It has been desecrated and pil-laged, too, but all this has been stopped; andthe… … The Pilgrimage to St. Martin The Canigou and Andorra 133 Guifred, gave this eerie site, at an altitude ofconsiderably more than a thousand metresabove the sea, to a community of Benedictinemonks for the purpose of founding a monas-tery. Ten years later the Bishop Oliba, ofVic-dOsona in Catalonia,…
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