. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ?m> f^-Z^ mv4 I GERONA {page 200). CLOISTER OF ST. PETER GALLIGANS, GERONA (/(T^^ 206) To face page 166 A CROSS-COUNTRY JOURNEY TO ILLE 167 Spanish town. Many of the big silent houses have statelyinner rooms, and carved marble doorways, and the impress ofthe bygone days, when the Spanish nobility had town-housesin Ille. The history of these ancient families, which havedied out or become merged in the people, or still protracta haughty but subdued existence under the heel of theirrepublican neighbours,
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ?m> f^-Z^ mv4 I GERONA {page 200). CLOISTER OF ST. PETER GALLIGANS, GERONA (/(T^^ 206) To face page 166 A CROSS-COUNTRY JOURNEY TO ILLE 167 Spanish town. Many of the big silent houses have statelyinner rooms, and carved marble doorways, and the impress ofthe bygone days, when the Spanish nobility had town-housesin Ille. The history of these ancient families, which havedied out or become merged in the people, or still protracta haughty but subdued existence under the heel of theirrepublican neighbours, is closely interwoven with the historyof the land. One may read in volumes of local genealogyhow one Galcerand II. of Urg, Lord of Ille, fought at thegreat battle of Navas de Tolosa against the Moors ; howAva de Fenollet, a daughter of the Viscount of Fenollet andIlle, married the great Jazbert, Viscount of Castell Nou,andpassed the evening of her life as a widow in Ille, cherishingthe sick and the poor; how the noble house of Ille was con-cerned in the wars of Aragon and Majorca, and grew inpower, till it passed on the d
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