Saunterings in Spain : Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Cordova, Seville, Granada PDF
by Frederick H. A. Seymour
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For many reasons, the author of these pages decided to limit his tour in Spain to but a small portion of the Peninsula.
He was desirous chiefly of visiting those Cities where the Moor had founded their greatest seats. And therefore Andalucia forms the greater portion of the volume.
There is no country in Europe where hasty travelling is more to be deprecated.
What is called a scamper through Spain, leads to no profitable result.
Not only is the Country so vast, but the distinctions of Race, and the divergencies of language are so marked, that each day of travel convinces the least observant that the term Spain is indeed a geographical expression.
The Spaniards never talk of a Spain. It is with them Las Espanas.<br><br>Even if you call a Spaniard, a Spanish Hidalgo, he is not flattered.
He is a Catalonian he is 2, Castillan :he is an Andalucian (as the case may be).
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