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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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ond class. We did not wish to go northward,however, as our face was turned toward the south, to Toledo. Thetrip to Toledo cost less than two dollars, from Madrid; and in thisfamous old city there is more of real interest (leaving out Madridsmuseums) than in the capital itself. We were constantly saying to ourselves, To-morrow we willvisit Toledo. The Spaniards have a saying: Maiiana (to-morrow);siempre manana (always to-morrow) ; and to-morrow never comes! But there was one to-day when we gladly said, This is now, — thisis the thing we have so long dreamed of, and now it is realized!Such was the day in Toledo, — the day wre first entered it; that cityof the Tagus, the golden Tagus, that half encircles it. The river ofthe poet they call it; because, perhaps, it toils not, nor spins, butsimply roars on forever, Oh, its bosom unvexed by keel of any craft.The city is called one of the oldest in Europe, and no one who hasseen it will dare affirm that it is not. Did not the Jews call it
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PUEKTA DEL SOL, TOLEDO. TOLEDO, ON THE GOLDEN TAG US. I 25 Toledoth, the city of their ancestors who forsook Palestine in thetime of the great Nebuchadnezzar ? It comes into history, at leastas early as 193 b. c, when it was taken by the Romans, and thenit was large and well populated. After the Romans, the Goths heldToledo, and made it their capital ; here reigned King Wamba, andhere Roderic, the last king of the Goths, outraged the fair Florinda,whose father, Count Julian, aided the advent of the terrible Moors,and thus avenged himself on his king at the expense of his countrysliberty. Some there are, who will tell you there was no fair Florinda,and consequently King Roderic did her no wrong ; but we doubt notthere was, for have we not seen Florindas Bath, at the foot of the hill,on the marge of the rich-hued Tagus? Here, too, we believe, was that scurvy trick played upon old King^Wamba, about twelve hundred years ago, whereby he was deprivedof his kingdom. He had not wanted the kin

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