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r pufe, were the old. ** conquerors of new , the Marquis del Valle,

veely less i nowned.

tencia lies, embosome! by

rtile valley almost nin 1 and partly encon passed,

, by the pyar Xerte. Its situation .....ch the inhal itants have

at of public promenade -. From the circumstance me of Ambroz some six 1, etured that the town was

AL.bracia of the Romans;

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In the f spara of

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As a suffragan of 2.4 Jago, Placencia compreis diocese cathedral chapter, and a d áfy-tão perishes, The bishops were anas powift with their secular capecity, e in particular, a

sworn eremy of th

Moors levied troops, and led

them, clad in steel and hauberk, to the onset. The old cathedral included eight dignitaries, sixteen canonries, and eight prebends; it had nine beneficed priests, thirty-two chaplains, twenty young choristers, and eighteen of those urchins called miseros, to attend masses. There was a regular gradation of ranks; the choristers, on becoming priests, took the place of the chaplains; and the poor chaunting miseros, in their turn, rose to the pitch of choristers, and were miserable no more. Its ancient importance also conferred upon it a corregidor, a judge and criminal court, an alcalde, and a municipal council composed of regidors. The church of the Dominicans is a very handsome building, has a noble front in the composite order, a nave not inferior in the gothic style, and a grand altar of rich and elaborate workmanship. Among its numerous chapels is that of San Juan, which contains the tomb of Martin Nieto, whose statue, armed and kneeling, is graceful, dignified, and full of expression.

The cathedral itself exhibits the taste of different centuries and epochs, showing, in its various additions, the progress and decline of the arts: its north front, for instance, displays three different stories of architecture, with two towers and a confused mass of unmeaning ornaments. Its interior, of the same character, discovers paintings and sculptures, bas-reliefs, figures of men and animals equally abundant and grotesque. In the sanctuary we saw the tomb of the bishop, Pontius de Leon, executed in rather better taste. The chief altar rises in three stories of the Corinthian order, two of which are supported by eight