Catalonia & the Balearic Islands: an historical and desciptive account

The cloister adjoins the north-east angle of the cathedral--a most unusual position. The door communicating with it is the finest in the building. It is a round-arched doorway r...

One instinctively searches at Barcelona for monuments of civic state befitting a city of such antiquity and dignity. Happily such are not lacking and have been preserved to us....

There is a monastic seminary on the mountain, also an extremely ancient and aristocratic foundation. The boys have some curious customs. On the feast of St. Nicholas, the patron...

Farther down stream is Vich, a town constantly referred to in the annals of the Carlist wars. As the history of that insurrection is not well known to foreigners, visitors are m...

The superior enterprise and energy of the Catalans may be attributed less, I think, to racial differences than to historical and geographical causes. Far removed from the scene...

Menorca, the second largest of the islands, is bare and bleak and flat round the coast, though at one point in the interior it rises to a height of nearly 6000 feet. Here and th...

GOYA TOLEDO MADRID SEVILLE MURILLO CORDOVA EL GRECO VELAZQUEZ THE PRADO THE ESCORIAL VALENCIA AND MURCIA SCULPTURE IN SPAIN ROYAL PALACES OF SPAIN GRANADA AND ALHAMBRA SPANISH A...