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Cathedral cities of Spain (1909)

Collins, William Wiehe, 1862- · New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 367

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eendug up here, but history does not go further back than^tolian 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… … 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 onlywanted a few…

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