Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 276
ts granitehouses, with wire-worked balconies; its rock-surmount-ing Alcazar, or citadel,—built by Alphonso the Learned,—the residence of Charles I., on his romantic expeditionto Spain in September 1623,—the prison of Gil Bias,according to his veracious biographer, Le Sage; and its * OShea, Guide to… … The Aqueduct, Segovia. We visit it now, however, only for the sake of its aque-duct, which merits to be included among the monumentsof ancient architecture. It is truly and in fact a Cyclo-pean work, built up of massive blocks of gray granite, .282} ] S 274 THE SEGOVIAN AQUEDUCT. fitted together…
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