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Spain is a country more suited to the traveller than the mere 
tourist, and there is some reason in the proverb (of French 
origin, by-the-bye) that ‘‘ Africa begins at the Pyrenees.” The 
principal points to get into the mind about the Spaniard is that 
he will not be hurried—that every Spaniard, down to the lowest 
beggar, expects to be treated as a gentleman, a Caballero, as he 
calls himself. If you get across with him on these two points, 
there will be a revelation of profundities in stupidity which the 
rest of the world would never suspect. The visitor needs to 
take with him an extra stock of patience, and it is quite 
necessary to disburden oneself of all prejudice, to be prepared to 
take things quietly, just as they turn up, and to be surprised at 
nothing! But, notwithstanding some inconveniences, the true 
lover of Art and character will feel no disappointment worth 
mentioning, and manifesting a free and kindly disposition, he 
will meet with the utmost politeness and consideration. The 
Spaniard has not only polite manners, but he has a polite heart, 
his manifest anxiety for the comfort of the stranger when 
travelling, is a fine lesson to most Englishmen, whose surly, 
bearish, unsociable method on the continent is quite proverbial. 
No study of Art, Roman, Moorish, Medieval or Renaissance, 
can be considered even approximately complete without an 
acquaintance with the examples which Spain has to shew us. 
The Roman remains include bridges, aqueducts, arches, 
collonades, temples, forums, pillars, and highways, and it is 
said on good authority that the province of Hstremadura 
contains more Roman antiquities than any other territory of 
equal area on the globe. ‘Take as examples the Roman bridge 
of Alcantara, 280 yards long and 70 yards high, and the 
aqueduct of Segovia, nearly half a mile long with 320 arches, 
all in granite, built Cyclopean fashion without mortar. These 
two are the finest of their kind in the world. 
The influence of the Moors is not felt to any extent north of 
Madrid, but their works are numeroug and most interesting. 
Toledo has some wonderful specimens to shew, but the glory of 
Moorish Art is in the South, and the Mosque of Cordova and the 
Palace of the Alhambra, the Alcazar of Seville, are quite unique 
and unsurpassed. 
The Medieval Art in Cathedrals, Churches and Castles, is of 
the highest order. Lecclesiastical Art in Spain is largely 
influenced from external sources, especially France and 
Germany, but the Cathedrals of Seville, Toledo, Leon, Burgos, 
rank with the finest im Europe. The Churches, which are for 
the most part striking enough, are often spoiled by the grotesque 
embellishments of late Spanish Art. No country in Europe is 
so rich in Church furniture; the huge retables, which generally 
occupy the whole of the east wall, the screens of alabaster, the 
