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Title: Bright days in sunny lands
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Honeyman, A. Van Doren (Abraham Van Doren), 1849-1936
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Plainfield, N.J., Honeyman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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what that pattern is, for it is a conglomerationof thick stone walls and myriads of rooms and win-dows. It has seven towers, fifteen gateways, threethousand eight hundred doors and windows, sixteencourts,and corridors of a hundred miles in total length.Did I walk through all these corridors and look outthrough all these windows? Not in one days visit.Nor would I desire to do so, were my visit one of ahundred days. I should as soon desire to see everycell in Sing Sing prison and touch every stone of theVatican. And why walk much within, when probablynot a living soul would be met to tell you it was everintended to be the abode of life ? Five things impressed and interested me in thisstrange and gloomy Palace. The first was the library.That has pretty frescoes, tables of porphyry and jas-per, elegant bookcases designed by the famous Escorialarchitect, Herrera, and an enormous number ofpriceless treasures in the shape of Greek, Arabic andSpanish manuscripts. The second were the portions
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THE OLD SPAIN AND THE NEW 93 of the old living rooms of the Palace, which are yetcarpeted and furnished with magnificent sets of an-tique furniture, and where elaborate and costly tapes-tries, made for Charles III., representing games, bull-fights, fetes, etc., line the walls. They are not roomsto compare in elegance or comfort with some modernpalaces, but the decorations and furnishings deservemore than a passing mention. The third was the Bat-tle Room: the long hall, one hundred and seventy-eight feet in length, in which are displayed the fres-coes of Granello and Castello, representing the bat-tles of Higueruela, Lepanto, St. Quentin and Pavia,which, as historical works of art, must possess im-mense value. The fourth was the suite of tiny rooms,next to the church itself, where Philip lived in his lateryears, a prey to fear if not to remorse, and where he atlast died, grasping his crucifix, gazing through anopen door at the high altar of the church, seeking, itis said, consolation i

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