Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 ...The apex of the triangular hill is crowned by a castle and the coleguita; the streets are straggling; the buildings are whitened with cat de Moron; the carnation pinks, grown in pots imbedded in the houses, are superb. Osuna was called Gemina Urbanorum, because 2 legions, and both of Home, happened to be quartered there at the same time. The Spanish annalists prefer deriving the name from Osnna, daughter of Hispan, who married Pyrrhus, a killer of boars; hence the arms of the city, a castle with 2 boars chained to a window. The early coins found here are numerous and curious (Florez, ' M.' ii. 625). Osuna was taken from the Moors in 1240; Philip II. granted it to Pedro Giron, whom Francois I. used to call Le M F.spagnol. For this noble family (doubtless descendants of the fabulous Geryon) consult the ' Compendio de los Girones,' Jer. Gudiel, Alcala, 1577. TheGirons became the true patrons of Osuna; thus Juan Tellez, in 1534, founded the church, and his son, in 1549, the college. Ascend to the the panorama is extensive. The colegiata, built in 1534, in the mixed Gothic and cinque-cento stjie,was converted by Soult into a citadel and magazine, for, as in olden times, Osuna is an important military position, from its fine spring, water being wanting in the plains (Hirt. B.H.'41). The Marshal's soldiers amused themselves with mutilating the terra cotta sacred subjects over the cinque-cento portal, and with firing at the grand Crucifixion by Ribera, which was afterwards restored by Joaquin Cortes. There also are other 4 gloomy pictures by Kibcra in the lietablo, which were brought from Naples by the celebrated Viceroy Duke. The marbles of the pavement are fine; Soult carried off more than 5 cwt.of ancient church plate; a gilt Cordovan cup has alone escap...