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Title: Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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of that name; 29 M. Villada; 35 M. Orajal deCampos, with a picturesque ruined castle of the 15th century. 38 M. Sahagiin, a town of 2730 inhab., was the Camala of theRomans and is often mentioned in the chronicles of the middleages. The ruined Benedictine Abbey of Sahagun, visible from therailway, was erected over the graves of SS. Facundus and Primitivusand exercised the greatest influence on the history of the land dur-ing the 10-15th centuries. In the following period, however, themonastery suffered so much from internal quarrels, earthquakes,and conflagrations, that nothing remained at the end of the 18th cent,but a pile of ruins. The Capilla de San Mancio (12th cent.) con-tains the fine tomb of Alfonso VI. (comp. also p. lv). Farther on the train crosses viaducts and the Cea. To the rightis the picturesquely situated convent of Trianos. 42y2 M. Calzada;50 M. El-Burgo-Raneros; 60 M. Santas Martas. We enter the deltaof the Porma, Bernesga, and Esla, crossing the last-named river by
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Cathedral. LEON. 11. Route. 157 a bridge 330 yds. long. — 65 M. Palanquinos, a favourite summerresort of the Leonese; 71 M. Torneros. 76!/2 M. Leon. The rail, station (restaurant) lies 3/4 M. to theW. of the town; hotel-omnibuses meet the trains. Leon. — Hotels. Hot. Noriega, Calle San Marcelo; Hot. de Paris,Calle San Marcelo and Calle del Cid 2, an indifferent Spanish house, pens,from 6 fr. — Cafes. Suizo, Calle Ordono Segundo 1; Rueda, Calle SanMarcelo 8. — Baths, Calle Ordono Segundo 19. Post Office, Calle Cuatro Cantones 9. — Telegraph Office, Calle SanMarcelo 8. Ledn (2625 ft.), the capital of the province of the same name andthe seat of a bishop, is a city of 15,300 inhab., situated at the con-fluence of the Torio and the Bernesga, in a plain abounding in treesand meadows. The name is derived from the fact that the Sev-enth Roman Legion (Gemina Pia Felix) occupied a fortified camphere. In the 6th cent, the place was stormed, after a valiant resist-ance, by Leoviyild an

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