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Granada, present and bygone (1908)

Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946, Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine), 1867-1928 · London : J. M. Dent & co. · leaf 262

An illustration from Granada, present and bygone, 1908, leaf 262
lane called the Zacatin, the most famous and once the most important street in Granada. Here are some of the best shops in the city, and the ancient character has quite gone. Even Gautiers description would hardly apply to it to-day. The Zacatin is always crowded. Now you meet a group of students… … Gate of Elvira women, with their blue flounced dresses studded withstars, their long yellow shawls, their hair in disorder,and their necks encircled with big coral or ambernecklaces, or a file of donkeys loaded with enormousjars, and driven by a peasant from the Vega as sun-burnt as an African.…

Cano, Alonso, 1601-1667 · Alhambra (Granada, Spain) · Architecture -- Spain Granada · Granada (Spain) -- Description and travel · Granada (Spain) -- History

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