Category: Travel Writing
_Mountain chains_: Pyrenees 3 Cantabrian, Asturian, and Galician mountains 4 Leon _ib._ Oca, Sierra Moncayo, and Idubeda chains 5 Central Plateau and its passes _ib._ Culminating water-shed of the Peninsula 6 Guadarrama range _ib._ Toledan range 7 Sierra Morena and passes _ib....
Spain was formerly divided into some fourteen separate provinces or kingdoms, once ruled by distinct and independent sovereigns, and under very different political conditions. I...
15. CHAPTER VI.In order to understand the present constitution, the political condition, and the aspirations of the Spanish nation, it is absolutely necessary to have some slight acquaintance...
17. CHAPTER VIII.Though one of the most interesting countries of Europe with regard to architecture, Spain can lay claim to no style peculiar to itself, or that originated wholly within the Peni...
10. CHAPTER I.Spain, with the neighbouring kingdom of Portugal, constitutes the most westerly of the three southern peninsulas of Europe, and in Cape Tarifa, latitude 36 deg. 1', it attains t...
11. CHAPTER II.Spain may be roughly divided into five climates: (1) that of the north and of the Pyrenees, where rain is abundant; (2) the west or Atlantic climate, including Portugal; (3) the...
13. CHAPTER IV.On the first glance at a map of Spain and Portugal we are apt to think that few countries could have so well-defined a frontier as that formed by the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean...
18. CHAPTER IX.A few words in conclusion. Spain is far from being a worn-out country. On the contrary, both in the character and capacities of its varied populations, in the mineral riches of...
16. CHAPTER VII.The fame of the Spanish universities has greatly fallen from what it was in the early Middle Ages, when Salamanca ranked with Bologna, Paris, and Oxford, as one of the four grea...
12. CHAPTER III.Even in geological features Spain is a land apart. Divided from the rest of Europe by the regular Palaeozoic band of the Pyrenees, the rocks of the Peninsula are only susceptibl...
6. CHAPTER VI.Early liberties, _behetria_, _fueros_ 145 Capitulations of Moors and Jews 147 Conquest of the South and its results 149 The _Santa Hermandad_ _ib._ The Austrian Dynasty 151 The...
2. CHAPTER II.Five climates of Spain 30 Temperature and rainfall of: Galicia and the Asturias 31 Santander and the Basque Provinces 32 Aragon _ib._ Catalonia _ib._ Valencia 34 Alicante _ib._...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Characteristics of Spanish painting 205 Local schools 206 Murillo 208 Painters of Valencian school 209 " " Castilian " _ib._ " " Andalusian " _ib._ Modern painters 210 Industria...
1. CHAPTER I._Mountain chains_: Pyrenees 3 Cantabrian, Asturian, and Galician mountains 4 Leon _ib._ Oca, Sierra Moncayo, and Idubeda chains 5 Central Plateau and its passes _ib._ Culminatin...
4. CHAPTER IV.Pyrenees, no true boundary of 69 Population of Spain, mixed 70 Iberi, Kelt-Iberi, Basques, and Kelts _ib._ Foreign races in Spain 73 Visigoths, Arabs, and Moors 75 Toponymy of S...
5. CHAPTER V.Division of Kingdoms and Provinces 91 Galicia and its provinces, Corunna, Lugo, Pontevedra, and Orense 92 Asturias 94 Santander _ib._ Basque Provinces, Biscay, Guipuzcoa, Alava...
3. CHAPTER III.Peculiar interest of Spanish geology 58 Granite and Silurian rocks _ib._ Carboniferous formation 59 Secondary formations _ib._ Upper Cretaceous _ib._ Eocene tertiary 60 Miocene...
9. CHAPTER IX.7. CHAPTER VII.Universities, number of students, salaries of professors 181 Theological seminaries 182 Course of university study 183 Provincial and special institutes _ib._ Secondary instruct...