Collins, William Wiehe, 1862- · New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 283
. Avila is an intensely cold place, frosts often occurhere in May, but the summer months are delightful.Every street, every house almost is of interest, and in theold days of its importance there could have been fewstrongholds in the country so safe as this. The Cathedral is almost a fort in… … AVILA Garcia, a native of Navarre, this early Gothic buildingis still unfinished. Not much is, however, of this earlydate, for the general style of the building is of the end ofthe next century, and many alterations have followedthis in later years. The west front has but one tower, the…
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