[1] “A thoroughly national hotel ... I look down from my window through
marble colonnades ... perfumed with the scent of ... trees, which bend
... over a richly sculptured fountain.”—_Hare’s Wanderings in Spain_, pp.
93, 94.
[2] Instruments found everywhere in Spain.
[3] “The bridge over the Guadalquivir ... composed of sixteen arches ...
very picturesque ... built by Octavius Cæsar.”—_O’Shea’s Guide to Spain._
[4] “What spot can be more delightful than the grand old court,
surrounded by flame-shaped battlements ... beneath huge orange trees
planted some three hundred years ago.”—_Hare’s Wanderings in Spain_, p.
88.
[5] “From the court you step with bewilderment into a roofed-in forest of
pillars ... amid the thousand still remaining columns of varied color,
thickness, and material, which divide the building into twenty-nine naves
one way and nineteen the other. Into the midst of all a cathedral was
engrafted in 1547.” (It was built originally for a mosk.)—_Idem_, p. 89.
[6] Gonsalvo de Cordova, called “the great captain,” born 1443.
[7] Ferdinand of Aragon, whose forces, setting out from Cordova, drove
Abu-Abdillah, or Boabdil, the king of the Moors, from Granada in 1492.
[8] Titles applied to the city in different periods of its history,—when
inhabited by the Moors, the Goths, and before the Romans conquered it.
[9] Referring to the “blue blood” of the Spanish aristocracy, supposed to
be indicative of Roman ancestry.