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Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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his great cross,which is said to have been treasured up in the sacristy of the con-vent of San Pedro de Arlanzon, where Fernan caused his tomb tobe reared, may have been taken by the pillaging French, as we didnot learn of its present existence in Burgos, nor is it mentioned inthe guide-books. To-day we find memorials of Count Fernan throughout Burgos :a statue in the beautiful garden on the banks of the river Arlanzon,wThich divides the city, another in the great gate of the city, and anarch erected in his memory three hundred years ago. The castle still stands, though in ruins only, in which Don Garciawas imprisoned in the year 958 ; where Alfonso VI., of Leon, wasconfined by the Cid; where King Ferdinand the Saint receivedthe daughter of the Moorish king of Toledo, Saint Casilda, a con-vert to Christianity; and where Edward I. of England was marriedto Eleanor of Castile. This castle, the remains of which now crownthe hill above the cathedral and dominate the city, was left in ruins
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THE CID. THE CITY OF THE CID CAMPEADOR. J J by the French, and is connected with the history of the invasion -rbut its main interest to the true historian is its connection with thosetimes most ancient. True to their vandal sentiment, the French de-stroyed not only the castle, but by the explosion, all the beautifulstained glass of the cathedral, — an irreparable loss. Two other structures bear in remembrance the early worthies ofBurgos, and those are the Town Hall and the great city gate of SantaMaria. The Arco de Santa Maria is seen as you approach the cityfrom the station at the end of a fine stone bridge. It seems a relicof the Middle Ages, with its flanking bastions of the ancient citywalls, its turrets and battlements. The image of the Virgin standsover the great archway, and statues of Burgalese heroes; behind, asquare away, but near enough to be quite effective, rise the hightowers of the cathedral. The Town Hall contains most ancient remains, and portraits ofthe founders of

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