Category: Travel Writing
The Prado--The Mantilla and Fan--The Spanish Type--Water-Merchants; Coffee-houses of Madrid--Newspapers--The Politicians of the Puerta del Sol--Post-Office--The Houses of Madrid--Tertullias; Spanish Society--The Teatro del Principe--The Queen's Palace; the Palace of the Cortes...
The Prado--The Mantilla and Fan--The Spanish Type--Water-Merchants; Coffee-houses of Madrid--Newspapers--The Politicians of the Puerta del Sol--Post-Office--The Houses of Madrid...
8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.Illescas--The Puerta del Sol--Toledo--The Alcazar--The Cathedral-- The Gregorian and Mozarabic Ritual--Our Lady of Toledo--San Juan de los Reyes--The Synagogue--Galiana, Karl, a...
10. CHAPTER X.Procession of the Corpus Christi at Madrid--Aranjuez--A Patio Ocaña and its Environs--Tembleque and its Garters--A Night at Manzanares-- Santa Cruz Knives--The Puerto de los Per...
11. CHAPTER XI.12. CHAPTER XII.13. CHAPTER XIII.14. CHAPTER XIV.15. CHAPTER I.A few weeks ago (April, 1840), I happened, in an off-hand manner, to give utterance to the following phrase:--"I should like to go to Spain." Five or six days afterwards, my fri...
16. CHAPTER II.On leaving Bordeaux, the _Landes_ recommence, if possible more sad, more desolate, and more gloomy than before. Heather, broom, and _pinadas_ (pine forests), with here and there...
17. CHAPTER III.At Vergara, which is the place where the treaty between Espartero and Maroto was concluded, I saw, for the first time, a Spanish priest. His appearance struck me as rather grote...
18. CHAPTER IV.On leaving the room of Juan Cuchiller, you enter another which is decorated in a very picturesque manner. The walls are wainscoted with oak and hung with red tapestry, while the...
19. CHAPTER V._El Correo Real_ in which we quitted Burgos merits a particular description. Just fancy an antediluvian vehicle, of which I should say that the model, long since discarded, coul...
20. CHAPTER VI.We were obliged to wait two days. Never did two days appear so long to me, and in order to overcome my impatience, I read over more than ten times the bills posted up at the cor...
21. CHAPTER VII.The Prado--The Mantilla and Fan--The Spanish Type--Water-Merchants; Coffee-houses of Madrid--Newspapers--The Politicians of the Puerta del Sol--Post-Office--The Houses of Madrid...
22. CHAPTER VIII.In order to proceed to the Escurial, we hired one of those fantastic vehicles, of which we have already had occasion to speak, covered with grey cupids and other ornaments in th...
23. CHAPTER IX.Illescas--The Puerta del Sol--Toledo--The Alcazar--The Cathedral--The Gregorian and Mozarabic Ritual--Our Lady of Toledo--San Juan de los Reyes--The Synagogue--Galiana, Karl, an...
24. CHAPTER X.Procession of the Corpus Christi at Madrid--Aranjuez--A Patio--Ocaña and its Environs--Tembleque and its Garters--A Night at Manzanares--Santa Cruz Knives--The Puerto de los Per...
25. CHAPTER XI.A piece of news, well calculated to throw a whole Spanish town into a state of commotion, had suddenly been bruited about Granada, to the great delight of the _aficionados_. The...
26. CHAPTER XII.As yet we were only acquainted with the _galera_ on two wheels; we now had the pleasure of making a trial of one on four. An amiable vehicle of this description happened to be a...
27. CHAPTER XIII.We confess, in all humility, that this proverb would strike us as more correct if applied to Toledo or Granada rather than to Seville, where we saw nothing particularly marvello...
28. CHAPTER XIV.After we had been travelling so long on horseback, on mules, in carts, and in _galeras_, the steamer struck us as something miraculous, in the style of the magic carpet of Fortu...