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List of Illustrations (etext transcriber's note) |
THE SPANISH SERIES
MADRID
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THE SPANISH SERIES
Edited by ALBERT F. CALVERT
| Goya Toledo Madrid Seville Murillo Cordova El Greco Velazquez Cervantes The Prado The Escorial Royal Palaces of Spain Spanish Arms and Armour Granada and the Alhambra Leon, Burgos, and Salamanca Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila, and Zaragoza |
| In preparation |
| Galicia Sculpture in Spain Cities of Andalucia Murcia and Valencia Tapestries of the Royal Palace Catalonia and Balearic Islands Santander, Vizcaya, and Navarre |
MADRID
TIONAND HANDBOOK OF
THE SPANISH CAPITAL,
BY ALBERT F. CALVERT,
WITH 453 ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMIX
TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.
PREFACE
Madrid is but a nursling among the cities of Spain. Marius Fulvius laidsiege to Toledo nearly two centuries before the birth of Christ, and itis not until a thousand years later that we find the first historicalmention of Madrid. London, under the title of Augusta, was one of themost important towns of Britain more than five hundred years before DonRamiro II. of Leon razed Majerit, as it was then called, in 939. This isthe first authoritative reference we have to Madrid. In 1540, Charles V.abandoned the time-honoured capitals of Valladolid, Seville, Zaragoza,and Toledo, to nurse his gout in the brisk, rarefied air of Madrid. In1560 the