Text Appearing Before Image: cpr^! »T 17JTJ Axn CATHEDRAL. SOUTH iHROUGH LEON AND CASTILE. 59 East from Medina del Campo about sixty miles is Segovia, ancientlya Roman city, a fortified place, and with an aqueduct (likewise ascribedto the times of Trajan) as its noblest structure. It brings water froma point nine miles away, and has arches one hundred feet in height. Text Appearing After Image: SALAMANCA. The grand monuments of Segovia are three in number : the aqueductthe alcazar, or Moorish citadel, and its cathedral. The aqueduct iseighteen centuries old, the alcazar nine centuries, and the cathedral(built 1525) occupies the site of another dating its construction fromthe eleventh. Truly Segovia, with its fine old Gothic residences, itsgrand structures, and its commanding position upon a fortified hill 60 RAMBLES IN SUNNY SPAIN. above a river, should not be passed by any more than Salamanca.Readers of Gil Bias must note that he was immured in a dungeonof the alcazar of Segovia; and lovers of the picturesque will need noother incentive to cause them to visit here. Of grand cathedrals, the city of Palencia, on the road from San-tander to Medina, possesses one of the grandest in Spain ; and inspeaking of seats of learning we should not forget that here wasfounded, it is said, the oldest university in Spain, one older thanSalamancas; and again, in Palencia (according to the r
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