Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers . uel Iscar, diverging to the right, is the House of Cervantes(PI. 1, B 4; p. 108), occupied by the immortal novelist from 1603to 1606. It now belongs to the state. The Calle de Santiago, continuing the Acera de Recoletos, leadsto the to the Plaza Mayor or Plaza de la Constitucidn (PI. B, 3),the focus of the citys life, containing many arcaded shops and theinsignificant Casa de Ayuntamiento. — To the E. of this squarelie the Plaza de la Fuente Dorada (PI. B, 3) and the small Plaza delOchavo, where Alvaro de Luna (p. 139), the once all-powerfulfa
Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers . uel Iscar, diverging to the right, is the House of Cervantes(PI. 1, B 4; p. 108), occupied by the immortal novelist from 1603to 1606. It now belongs to the state. The Calle de Santiago, continuing the Acera de Recoletos, leadsto the to the Plaza Mayor or Plaza de la Constitucidn (PI. B, 3),the focus of the citys life, containing many arcaded shops and theinsignificant Casa de Ayuntamiento. — To the E. of this squarelie the Plaza de la Fuente Dorada (PI. B, 3) and the small Plaza delOchavo, where Alvaro de Luna (p. 139), the once all-powerfulfavourite of John III., was executed in 1453. — A little fartherto the E., in the Plaza de Portugalete, rises the — Cathedral (PI. C, 3, 4), a structure in the late-Renaissance style,begun by Juan de Herrera (p. Ill) in 1585 and afterwards continuedby Churriguera. According to Herreras design the church was toconsist of nave and choir, furnished with aisles, and separated bya dome-covered transept; both sides were to be flanked with rows. WagneriDebes, leipzig VALLADOLID. 5. Route. 43 of chapels, and there were to be four towers at the corners. Thebuilding, however, remained a fragment, and the only completedtower (now rebuilt) fell in in 1841. The interior is 402 ft. longand 207 ft. wide. The fine choiT-stalls are partly in the Renais-sance style and were designed by Herrera for the ohurch of SanPablo (p. 44). Among the other contents are paintings by LucaGiordano, an old copy of Raphaels Madonna della Casa Alba, andthe tomb of Count Pedro Ansurez. — The sacristy contains themasterpiece of Juan de Arphe: a solid silver *Custodfa or mon-strance, in the form of a temple, 6^2 ft- in height and 140 lbs. inweight; it is adorned with statuettes of Adam and Eve in the Gar-den of Eden (comp. p. lvii). — Herreras original model of the cath-edral is preserved in the muniment-room. Immediatelyto theE. of the cathedral is the Plaza de Santa Maria(PI. C, 3, 4), co
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