Reproduced ieith permission from Arcktw Mas PALACIO DEL MARQUES DE
DOS AQUAS, VALENCIA FROM THE PYRENEES TO PORTUGAL BY ROSE MACAULAY
HAMISH HAMILTON LONDON First published in Great Britain, April 1949
by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Second Impression, May ip p Third
Impression, October 1949 Printed in Great Britain by Butler Tanner
Ltd, , Frome and London The curved gulfs, the promontories, the
shore stretching along the sea, the hills standing close above it,
the high towns lapped by the waves . . . the sea walls guarding the
ports, the way the marshes and the lakes lie, and the high wild
mountains rise. . . . RUFUS FESTUS AVIENUS late 4th century II faut
visiter les pays dans leur saison violente, 1 Espagne en etd, la
Russie en hiver. THEOPHILE GAUTIER 1845 Being entered Spaine, he
must take heed o Posting in that hot Country in the Summer time,
for it may stirre the masse of bloud too much. JAMES HOWELL 1642
The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the
Mediterranean. SAMUEL JOHNSON 1776 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I SHOULD like
very gratefully to thank Dr. J. M. Batista i Roca, of Barcelona and
Cambridge, for Hs kindness in looking through and making
suggestions for the bettering of some of the Cata-Ionian section of
this book, and also for giving me introductions in Barcelona. I am
grateful to Mr. Bernard Bevan, lately Infor mation Officer of the
British Consulate-General in Barcelona, for much information,
kindness and help to Miss Massey, of the same department, for
valuable assistance in Barcelona to Mr. W. C. E. F. Leverkus,
British Vice-Consul at Cartagena, for his information and advice to
the Patronato Nacional del Turismo at Madrid and the Secretariado
Nacional da Informacao atLisbon for very kindly supplying me with
photographs to Senor Antonio Marquet of Barcelona, and the
Instituto Espanol in London, for also helping me with these to Mr.
R. B. Neumegen, of Messrs. Offley, Forrester Co., for information
about sherry at Jerez to Professor Edgar Prestage for lending me
the most recent researches of Portuguese scholars into Prince Henry
the Navi gators towns on Capes Sagres and St. Vincent, and to
Professor Rhys Carpenter, of Bryn Mawr, for sending me his
delightful study, The Greeks in Spain. ROSE MACAULAY CONTENTS Page
Introductory I CATALONIAN SHORE 9 VALENCIAN SHORE So MURCIAN SHORE
114 ANDALUCIAN SHORE 123 ALGARVE SHORE 184 Index 199 ILLUSTRATIONS
PAIACIO DEL MARQUES DE Dos AGUAS, VALENCIA Frontispiece Facing page
SAN PERE DE RODA 12 AMPURIAS 13 GERONA 28 ESCALERA DE SANTO
DOMINGO, GERONA 29 CALELLA, COSTA BRAVA 34 COSTA BRAVA 35 TOSSA DE
MAR 42 UNFINISHED CHURCH OF THE SAGRADA FAMILIA, BARCELONA 43 SANTA
MARIA, TARRASA 60 CATHEDRAL, TARRAGONA 61 SAGUNTO, CASTLE AND
AMPHITHEATRE 86 PE ISCOLA 87 DENIA, PORT AND CASTLE 104 PE ON DE
IFACH, CALPE 105 ALICANTE HARBOUR 108 MOJACAR 109 ORIHUELA 112 CASA
SE ORIAL, LORCA 113 CAVE DWELLINGS, GUADIX 126 GRANADA 127
SACRISTIA OF THE CARTUJA, GRANADA 132 TOCADOR DE LA REINA,
ALHAMBRA, GRANADA 133 ARCO ROMANO, RONDA 144 TARIFA 145
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