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Cathedral cities of Spain (1909)

Collins, W W 1862- · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 276

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further back thaniEtolian Diomede, the son of Tydeus, who founded whatbecame under King Witiza the Gothic capital. Thiswas in the year 700. Ordono I. rebuilt it two hundredyears later, and I did not find it difficult to trace the mas-sive granite walls which sheltered the inhabitants, andpreserved… … ■■ \ l -l • 1 1 1 1 3 TUY bays Is early pointed, with a blind triforium and blockedup clerestory. So narrow and dark are the aisles and somassive the columns which support the fine vaulting ofthe roof, that I could never get rid of the feeling that Iwas in some great hall of an ancient castle. It…

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