Travels in the Pyrenees - including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne (1913) (14761508856)

Identifier: travelsinpyrenee00oconrich (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: O'Connor, Vincent Clarence Scott, 1869-
Subjects: Andorra -- Description and travel France -- Description and travel Pyrenees -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Long
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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.NTA COLOMA, ANDORRA (page 295)
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ST. PAUL DE FENOUILLET (page 322) To face page 276 THE VALIRA DEL ORIENTE 277 One passes rude hamlets with little chapels which standfor the earliest alphabet of Christian architecture, and dateback almost to the passing of the Arab from these lands;sombre villages, black and iron-grey, the abodes of poverty ;shrines by the wayside to Our Lady, nostra Senyora delMeritxelly Patroness - General of the Andorran valleys;granite crosses of ancient days, more beautifully wroughtthan any work of recent years, with Christ upon His crosson one side, the Virgin and Babe upon the other. (It issurely to the cult of the Virgin-Mother that Europe owessome of her special regard for women ?) These crossesstand upon some commanding rock by the wayside,svelte and human in their amphitheatres of gaunt toweringmountains. At St. Jean the Old one comes upon the first chapel witha tower and any pretensions to architecture. It stands upona grassy precipitous rock overlooking the foaming river, itsrude but el