. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. sive,therefore, of somethingGERONA greater and more noble than a bourgeois commer-cialism. It tells one that even here on the ultimate confinesof Spain, and far from its proud Castilian heart, the senti-ment of a great people may be felt. I step out of my hotel, whose marble floors and staircasewith their hint of magnificence, put the grim old inns of theRoussillon to shame, and within a few yards see finer houses,larger patios, and greater interiors, than a long day in Per-pignan and much research can s
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. sive,therefore, of somethingGERONA greater and more noble than a bourgeois commer-cialism. It tells one that even here on the ultimate confinesof Spain, and far from its proud Castilian heart, the senti-ment of a great people may be felt. I step out of my hotel, whose marble floors and staircasewith their hint of magnificence, put the grim old inns of theRoussillon to shame, and within a few yards see finer houses,larger patios, and greater interiors, than a long day in Per-pignan and much research can show me. Here is the beau-tiful Catalan arch in its natural home ; here are the delicatewindows, with their fluted columns of marble that looks likesteel, which I have so much admired at the Hotel de Ville ;and here are what you will find in no part of the Roussillon—superb flights of stone steps, and stairways reaching upto magnificent buildings, escutcheoned and enriched withelaborate carvings. Out of a narrow sombre street stillwrapped in mediaeval gloom, I emerge suddenly upon the.
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