. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . ch is dimly lighted. Behind the altar is thesacristy, from which we saw the priest emerge tochurch a woman who knelt before the altar. Themost interesting thing about the church is the door,which appears to have been rebuilt in the course ofthe last 200 years. The ironwork is applied to door-leaves of chestnut, and time has covered it with a finebrown patina. It is an excellent example of the Rous-sillon doors, and, bears no less than 113 channelledvolutes. The heavy rings are riveted to a half-spher
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . ch is dimly lighted. Behind the altar is thesacristy, from which we saw the priest emerge tochurch a woman who knelt before the altar. Themost interesting thing about the church is the door,which appears to have been rebuilt in the course ofthe last 200 years. The ironwork is applied to door-leaves of chestnut, and time has covered it with a finebrown patina. It is an excellent example of the Rous-sillon doors, and, bears no less than 113 channelledvolutes. The heavy rings are riveted to a half-spherefixed on to the wood by a fiat circle pierced with number of horseshoes are nailed on in blank is a door at Belpuig very like it. They probablydate from the thirteenth century. The two leaves ofthe door are generally designed separately, and do notexactly match as in this case. Palalda is a contrac-tion of Palatium Dani, and the village appears to datefrom very early times, since Celtiberian medals havebeen found here. On the mountain we found box growing wild to some. DOOR OF THE CHURCH, To face page 318. ARLES-SUR-TECH 319 size, a large flowering lavender, a broom with thegrowth of furze, cistus, several sages, and other aromaticplants, which filled the air with fragrance. Roundabout Amelie, and specially on the road to Ceret,which runs beneath the pleasant shade of an avenueof trees for a considerable distance, many of the houseshave outside stairs, with vine pergolas shading themand the terraces to which they lead, reminding one ofsimilar houses seen in Italy in previous years. A couple of miles or so farther up the valley liesArles-sur-Tech, a quaint little town in which it is saidthat the Catalonian manners and customs, includingthe characteristic dances, are preserved better thananywhere else in this part of the French appears to have owed its foundation to a Benedictineabbey established here in 778. The Church of S. Mariewas n
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