121

CATHEDRAL OF TOLEDO: Plan 124

CATHEDRAL OF TOLEDO: The choir stalls 140

CATHEDRAL OF TOLEDO: Chapel of Santiago, tombs of Alvaro
de Luna and his spouse 158

CATHEDRAL OF SEGOVIA 167

CATHEDRAL OF SEGOVIA: Plan 170

CATHEDRAL OF SEGOVIA: From the Plaza 176

CATHEDRAL OF SEVILLE: The Giralda, from the Orange Tree Court 191

CATHEDRAL OF SEVILLE: Plan 194

CATHEDRAL OF SEVILLE: Gateway of Perdon in the Orange Tree Court 210

CATHEDRAL OF SEVILLE AND THE GIRALDA 228

CATHEDRAL OF GRANADA: West front 239

CATHEDRAL OF GRANADA: Plan 242

CATHEDRAL OF GRANADA: The exterior cornices of the Royal Chapel 248

CATHEDRAL OF GRANADA: The reja enclosing the
Royal Chapel and tombs of the Catholic Kings 256

CATHEDRAL OF GRANADA: The tombs of the Catholic Kings,
of Philip and of Queen Juana 262

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SALAMANCA

[Illustration: Photo by Author

CATHEDRALS OF SALAMANCA

The towers of the old and new buildings]

CATHEDRALS OF SPAIN

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SALAMANCA

In quella parte ove surge ad aprire
Zeffiro dolce le novelle fronde,
Di che si vede Europa rivestire.

_Paradiso_, c. XII, l. 46.

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Nowhere else in Spain, and certainly in few places outside her borders,
can one take in the whole architectural development of successive styles
and ages so comprehensively as in Salamanca. Byzantine and Romanesque,
Gothic from its first fire to the last flicker and coldness of the
ashes, and the triumphant domination of the reborn classicism,--all are
massed together here.

Contrasts are eloquent to belittle or magnify. Here two cathedrals stand
side by side, the older from the days of the Kingdom, a mere chapel in
size compared to the larger and later expression of Imperial Spain. A
David beside a Goliath, simple power by the side of ponderous
self-assurance. Rude in its simplicity, seemingly unconscious of its
great inheritance and the genius it embodies, the old church stands a
monument of ear