CATHEDRAL CITIES
OF SPAIN
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CATHEDRAL CITIES OF ENGLAND. By GEORGE GILBERT. With 60reproductions from water-colours by W.W. Collins, R.I. Demy 8vo,16s. net. |
CATHEDRAL CITIES OF FRANCE. By HERBERT and HESTER MARSHALL. With 60reproductions from water-colours by HERBERT MARSHALL, R.W.S. Demy8vo, 16s. net. Also large paper edition, £2 2s. net. |
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ITALIAN HOURS. By HENRY JAMES. With 32 plates in colour andnumerous illustrations in black and white by JOSEPH PENNELL. Largecrown 4to. Price 20s. net. |
A LITTLE TOUR IN FRANCE. By HENRY JAMES. With 94 illustrations byJOSEPH PENNELL. Pott 4to. Price 10s. net. |
ENGLISH HOURS. By HENRY JAMES. With 94 illustrations by JosephPennell. Pott 4to. Price 10s. net. |
ITALIAN JOURNEYS. By W.D. Howells. With 103 illustrations by JosephPennell. Pott 4to. Price 10s. net. |
CASTILIAN DAYS. By the Hon. JOHN HAY. With 111 illustrations byJOSEPH PENNELL. Pott 4to. Price 10s. net. |
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BURGOS. THE CATHEDRAL
C A T H E D R A L C I T I E S
O F S P A I N
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED
BY
W. W. COLLINS, R.I.
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1909
All rights reserved
Copyright, London, 1909, by William Heinemann and
Washington, U.S.A., by Dodd, Mead & Co
PREFACE
SPAIN, the country of contrasts, of races differing from one another inhabits, customs, and language, has one great thing that welds it into ahomogeneous nation, and this is its Religion. Wherever one's footstepswander, be it in the progressive provinces of the north, the mediævalismof the Great Plain, or in that still eastern portion of the south,Andalusia, this one thing is ever omnipresent