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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
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s of such splendors now? In one lone andsolitary, though magnificent, Mosque, and in one stoutand ponderous Moorish bridge. But the former isworth a long journey to gaze upon, for it is fascinat-ingly beautiful. Like all other Spanish cities, I found Cordova as amunicipality to be interesting chiefly in the early even-ing, when everybody, old and young, large and small,were on the sidewalks, either sipping beverages orwalking out to see and to be seen. Girls, dressed gai-ly, some in brilliant green with green hats, talked theirlittle nonsenses and the young men generally carriedcanes. Between the hours of nine and one in the even-ing, everybody who could went into some outdoortheatre, where the plays were short and upon thevaudeville order. In the hotel at which I stopped, the* Hotel Suisse, doubtless the best in the place, therewas much old mahogany furniture, delightful to the eyeof furniture lovers. Every room contained a porouswater jar, as used in Oriental countries, peculiarly r
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^ . THE MOSQUE AT CORDOVA 65 adapted to keeping water cool for drinking purposes.I paced the street before the hotel and found it onlyseventeen feet wide. A mule in the garden pumpedup water from a deep well into the receptacle whichsupplied the hotel, and he went round and round allday long, making a noise not wholly agreeable. Thepoorest families had flowers in their houses and win-dows, showing that they had never forgotten the tra-ditions of the Moors. The best view of Cordova itself is from the Moor-ish bridge, seven hundred and thirty feet long, withsixteen arches, which crosses the Guadalquiver. Itsfoundations are of Roman days. The two very ancientmills near the lower side of the bridge are quaint, butthe walls of Cordova are still more indicative of age.The exterior of the Mosque is most majestic whenseen from the bridge, uplifting lofty choir and belfrytoward the heavens, and standing out as a silhouetteagainst the background of the Sierra de Cordoba. Let us hasten to this M

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