Identifier: ramblesinsunnysp00ober (find matches)
Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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l the morning hours. In the evening — forsuch was the fascination of this place that we frequently went outthere after dark — the garden was enlivened by delightful music fromthe violins, guitars, and tambourines of an excellent band of estudi-antes, — true Spanish students, — with graceful cloak, cocked hat, andwooden spoon. We are now ready to enter the country containing the richestremains of Moorish cities; for while the Goths bestowed upon Spainthe rich gift of expressive idioms, the architecture fittest to surviveis that only of the Moors. Seville under the Moors was a seat oflearning, and a centre of silk manufacture. The Moors held it fivehundred years, surrendering to King Ferdinand I. in December, 1248.\\hat those five hundred years of Moorish possession brought forth,we see to-day in the architectural remains, the finest of Seville. But we are in danger of side-tracking ourselves in these reflec-tions ; the broad road of Spanish history lay shining before us, yet we
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THE GIRALDA, SEVILLE. SIGHT-SEEING IN SEVILLE. I 67 wander off into a by-path. For this lapse let us now make amends.We had intended to describe the sights of Seville, the city lying inthe curve of the Guadalquivir. Its streets are so crooked that onefinds difficulty in going to any place at all; in fact, you cannot gostraight, for every hundred yards there is a turning or a corner. We had started out many times, with the fixed determination ofvisiting a certain spot, and had as many times returned without reach-ing it. At last, in despair of knowing the city in any other way, wewent up into the tower of the Giralda, with a map, and then de-scended and made the entire circuit of Seville. You know, of course,that the Giralda is the lion of Seville, sharing its honors with theAlcazar. Perhaps we need not repeat that it was built by the Moors,at the command of Abu Yacub, in the year 1196. It was a goodenough tower as it was, and two hundred and fifty feet in height,but the Spaniards adde

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