M AT AN Z AS. 
CALLE DE I.A CONSTITUCION. 
The summit of the Cumbre (Iiill) is reached by a carriage road, 
which leads to the hermitage of Montserrate and to the bluff overlooking 
the Yumuri Valley. The prospect over this immense basin, with the river 
winding through the parti-colored fields of cane and other vegetation 
and royal palms, singly and in clumps and clusters, dotting the whole ex¬ 
panse of the levels and slopes and summits of the encircling hills, is the 
most beautiful in Cuba, and one of the most famous of the world. The 
Yumuri has times and moods; one should see it in the early morning or at 
sunset, when the blending tints are soft and delicate. The Cumbre view 
to the east overlooks the town with its bright colored houses, the harbor 
and the broad expanse of the sea, with the shore-line seen stretching away 
in a series of crescents marked by the white surf breaking on the sand. 
The Hermitage of Montserrate was built in 1870 by Cuban residents 
who were natives of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and their 
descendants. It contains a shrine fashioned from cork brought from Spain, 
representing the shrine in the Monastery of Montserrate, the sacred 
mountain of the Catalans, which rises from the plateau of Cataluna. The 
Spanish monastery was built in 880 to enshrine La Santa Imagen, a small 
wooden figure of the Virgin, which the legend says was made by St. 
Luke and was taken to Spain by St. Peter. It was before this image that 
Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, hung up his weapons, 
renounced the world, and devoted himself to the service of Christ and the 
