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_The Story of Seville_

          "He who Seville has not seen,
          Has not seen a marvel great."

    "To whom God loves He gives a house in Seville."

_Popular Spanish Sayings._

[Illustration: _Saints Justa y Rufina_

_From the painting by Goya_]




_The Story of Seville
by Walter M. Gallichan_

_With Three Chapters on the Artists
of Seville by C. Gasquoine Hartley
Illustrated by Elizabeth Hartley_

[Illustration: colophon]

_London: J. M. Dent & Co.
Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street
Covent Garden, W.C._ * * 1903

_All Rights Reserved_




PREFACE


In the story of Seville I have endeavoured to interest the reader in the
associations of the buildings and the thoroughfares of the city.

I do not claim to have written a full history of Seville, though I have
sketched the salient events in its annals in the opening chapters of
this book. The history of Seville is the history of Spain, and if I have
omitted many matters of historical importance from my pages, it is
because I wished to focus attention upon the city itself. I trust that I
have succeeded in awaking here and there an echo of the past, and in
bringing before the imagination the figures of Moorish potentate or
sage, and of Spanish ruler, artist, priest and soldier.

Those who are acquainted with the history of Spain will appreciate the
difficulty that besets the historian in the matter of chronological
accuracy, and even