Identifier: 01710943.5406.emory.edu
Title: Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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incision) and through which roars the fish-abounding stream fpiscosus Tagus), driving a number of Moorishwater-mills. To the S. of the river, in a vast amphitheatre, rise therocky summits of the Montes de Toledo, enlivened here and therewith a few olive-groves and cigarrales (small summer-villas). The situation is, indeed, most wild and striking. The Tagus, wind-ing almost all round the city, confines it much in the fashion in whichthe Wear surrounds Durham. But here the town is far larger, the riverbanks are more rocky, precipitous, and wild than at Durham; whilst thespace enclosed within them is a confused heap of rough and unevenground, well covered with houses, churches, and monasteries, and inter-sected everywhere by narrow, Eastern, and Moorish-looking streets andalleys, most of which afford no passage-room for any kind of carriage,and but scanty room for foot-passengers. It is, consequently, without ex-ception, the most difficult city to find ones way in that I have ever seen,
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Reogra^ii Ansta.lt History. TOLEDO. 9. Route. 131 and the only one in which I have ever found myself obliged to confess acommissionaire or guide of some sort to be an absolute necessity, if onewould not waste half ones time in trying to find the way from one placeto another. (Gothic Architecture in Spain, by O. E. Street.) In History Toledo first appears as the capital of the brave Carpetani.Livy (xxxv, 7) mentions Toletum, as a small town, but strong on accountof its situation, which was taken by the Romans in B.C. 192. Under theVisigoths (5b7-712). whose king Reccared here renounced Arianism andbecame an orthodox Catholic in 587, Toledo became both the political andthe ecclesiastical metropolis of Spain. Numerous church-councils wereheld here. The city walls date from the reign of Wamba (673). — Fornearly four centuries (712-1085) Tolaitola was one of the chief strongholdsof the Mooes, at first under an Emir subsidiary to the Caliph of Cordovaand ultimately (1035) as an independen

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