. The standard guide . battlemented towers were found in the .strong castles and town defenses of Spain;it recalls those architectural monuments of the warring ages of the past; vast pilesof masonry, which grew with the increments of hundreds of years, amid the conflictsof Roman and Goth and Moor and Christian. Thus the archway on the northfa9ade, formerly a gateway, flanked by massive towers round and square, was anadaptation of the Puerto del Sol, or Gate of the Sun, of Toledo, one of the famousremains of the Moorish dominion in Spain. There is something in the strength ofthe Cordova that re
. The standard guide . battlemented towers were found in the .strong castles and town defenses of Spain;it recalls those architectural monuments of the warring ages of the past; vast pilesof masonry, which grew with the increments of hundreds of years, amid the conflictsof Roman and Goth and Moor and Christian. Thus the archway on the northfa9ade, formerly a gateway, flanked by massive towers round and square, was anadaptation of the Puerto del Sol, or Gate of the Sun, of Toledo, one of the famousremains of the Moorish dominion in Spain. There is something in the strength ofthe Cordova that recalls to old residents of St. Augustine the coquina defenseswhich once distinguished this locality; opposite the Cordova was the high-walledgarden of the Spanish Governor with its battery facing the west. The balconies ofthe lower range of windows are the kneeling balconies of Seville, so calledbecause the protruding base was devised by Michael Angelo to permit the faithfuto kneel at the passing of religious THE CORDOVA. FORT MARION.
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