The Alhambra and the Kremlin : the south and north of Europe (1873)
Prime, Samuel Irenaeus, 1812-1885 · New York : Anson D.F. Randolph · leaf 89
59 TOLEDO. gala-days she is borne in state through the streets, and honors are paid to her at every step, as the Oueen of Queens. A sleepy old porter let us into the Alcazar. Al-casa- czar is the house of Caesar, or the czar’s house, the king’s house, the palace. … The Alcazar. The palace, or what was once a palace, crowns the sum- mit of the hill on which the old city of Toledo stands. Around the base of the rock below the Tagus rushes rapidly, and away in every direction stretches the wide plain, gloomy, desolate, and yet grand in its storied past. It is…
North and south · Architecture
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