Identifier: impressionsofspa00herbuoft (find matches)
Title: Impressions of Spain in 1866
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Herbert of Lea, Mary Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness, 1822-1911
Subjects: Spain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Bentley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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icture of St. Johnthe Baptist. With the most ready and gentlecourtesy, the woman left her basket with aneighbour, and undertook to guide the strangerto the two or three principal hotels in the placetill they should find the right one— and this wasonly a fresh proof, if one had been needed, of theuniversal kindness which characterises the people.Later in the day, oiu^ travellers returned to theglorious cathedral, for which even their Toledoand Seville experiences had not spoilt them ;and then went up the steps to the Church ofSan Nicolas, which is on a steep ledge above, andcontains the most Avonderfully carved retablo of every event in the life of the saint. It wasthe finest and most delicate work of the sortwhich they had seen in Spain. There were alsosome interesting alabaster monuments in a sidechapel. From thence, ascending still higher,they came to San Esteban, the oldest church inBurgos, but which had been terribly knockedabout during the siege. A beautiful doorway and II i4^~
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Apostles Door of Cathedral, Burgos. BURGOS. 259 rose-window, an internal gallery and pulj)it, anda fine old picture of the Last Supper in thesacristy, are all that remain of its ancient splen-dour. The priest, seeing strangers in the chiu-ch,good-naturedly came forward and invited them tocome into the cloisters, from whence the viewover Burgos is very beautifiil. Descending the hill, they went to see several ofthe old houses in Burgos : among others La Casadel Cordon, the house of the constable, so calledfiom the rope over the portal, and the Casa deMiranda, with its beautifril fluted pillars and patio. But one thing was still unvisited, and thatwas the Carmelite convent, the last of St. Theresasfoundations, and one accomplished in spite ofcontradictions and difficulties of all kinds. It wason the 26th January, and therefore in the depthof winter, with deep snow on the ground, and thefloods out in every direction, that the saint, thoughalready in failing health and strength, undertook

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