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- Author: Mayne Reid
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 120
- ISBN-10: 1499746962
- ISBN-13: 9781499746969
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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No landscape on the Biscayan coast, presents a more imposing and picturesque aspect than the little village of Elanchovi. Lying within an amphitheatre of cliffs, whose crests rise above the roofs of the houses, the port is protected from the surge of the sea by a handsome little jetty of chiselled stone; while the single street of which the village is composed, commencing at the inner end of the mole, sweeps boldly up against the face of the precipice. On both sides, the houses, disposed in a sort of echelon, rise, terrace-like, one above the other; so that viewed from a distance, the street presents the appearance of a gigantic stairway. In these the common dwellings, there is not much variety of architecture; since the village is almost exclusively inhabited by poor fishermen. There is one building, however, that is conspicuous-so much so as to form the principal feature of the landscape. It is an old chateau-perhaps the only building of this character in Spain-whose slate roofs and gothic turrets and vanes, rising above the highest point of the cliffs, overlook the houses of the village.
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- Author: Mayne Reid
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 120
- ISBN-10: 1499746962
- ISBN-13: 9781499746969
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
No landscape on the Biscayan coast, presents a more imposing and picturesque aspect than the little village of Elanchovi. Lying within an amphitheatre of cliffs, whose crests rise above the roofs of the houses, the port is protected from the surge of the sea by a handsome little jetty of chiselled stone; while the single street of which the village is composed, commencing at the inner end of the mole, sweeps boldly up against the face of the precipice. On both sides, the houses, disposed in a sort of echelon, rise, terrace-like, one above the other; so that viewed from a distance, the street presents the appearance of a gigantic stairway. In these the common dwellings, there is not much variety of architecture; since the village is almost exclusively inhabited by poor fishermen. There is one building, however, that is conspicuous-so much so as to form the principal feature of the landscape. It is an old chateau-perhaps the only building of this character in Spain-whose slate roofs and gothic turrets and vanes, rising above the highest point of the cliffs, overlook the houses of the village.
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