Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain

by Annette M. B. Meakin

[208], [234-35], [353]
Silvestre, Gregorio, [57]
Silvia of Acquitaine, [36]
Sinai, Mount, [35], [37]
Sirmondo, Jesuit, [30]
Sivelo, Barros, [2] note [1], [4] and note, [7], [10]
Slav pilgrims to Santiago, [7]
Sobrado, monastery of, [77], [220]
Socialism, in Galicia and Andalusia, [175], [184]
Sodom, [37]
Solesme, [267]
Sotomayor, Diego de, tomb, [270]
Sotomayor, Payo Gomez de, [260]
Sotomayor, Suero Gomez de, [260]
Sotomayor family, [271-72], [281];
house in Pontevedra, [268];
genealogical tree, [271]
Soult, Marshal, [158]
South Kensington, cast of the Pórtico de Gloria, [123]
Southey, at Redondela, [276]
Spain—
Origin of Spanish language, [49];
Spanish characteristics, [153];
emigration, [175], [176];
natural laziness, [176-77];
government of, [177];
education, [177-78];
universities of, [192-193];
pigs of, [212];
the Spanish onion, [349];
architecture. See under Architecture
Statuary of the Middle Ages, harmony of, [121] and note;
influence of the drama on, [122];
absence of, in Greek churches, [122]
Stoke, Miss, quoted, [128]
Stonehenge, [7]
Strabo, cited, [6], [10]
Street, [85], [95] note, [96] note, [123], [132]
Sueves, the, [15-16], [28] and note [29], [30], [49], [261], [301]
Susana, Santa, [199]
Swanston, Paul, [160]
Sweden, [216]
Tabor, Mount, [35]
Tambre river, [22], [143], [231], [232], [240], [244]
Tamerlane, court of, [260]
Taxation in Gaul, [173], [179], [266-67]
Telmo, San, [284]
Templars, the, [265], [278], [296]
Teodomiro, [226], [294]
Teodomirus, Bishop, [62]
Teresa, Doña, [279-80]
Teruiel, [81]
Teucer, [255]
Theobald IV., [52]
Theodoricus, [15], [16]
Theodosius, Emperor, [4], [30]
Theophilus, S., [28]
Ticknor, George, [50]
Tiobre, [310]
Tobacco factories, Spanish, [169-70], [345]
Toja, mineral springs, [354-55]
Tojosutos, cloisters of, [305]
Toledo, [1], [86];
cathedral, [93]
Tomas, Irish bishop, [202]
Tombstones, [82-83]
Tomé, Narciso, [93]
Tomeza River, [255]
Torquato, San, [327], [328], [330]
Torquemada, Bishop, [284]
Torques of gold, [206-9], [233]
Torremuzquiez, Counts of, [325]
Toulouse Cathedral, sculptures, [128]
Toulouse Museum, [134], [208]
Tower of Hercules, Coruña, [154], [161-63]
Trajan, Emperor, [163], [219]
Tramunda, Santa, sarcophagus, [267]
Trava, the, [231], [239]
Tree of Jesse in sculpture, [114-15]
Trevino, Francisco, tomb, [69]
Trigo, Bartolamé, [256]
Troncoso, springs, [355]
Trovadores of Galicia, [52-59]
Tumbo, island of, [267]
Tumuli, [6-7]
Turkestan, wardrobes in, [241]
Turrafo, the, [22]
Tuy, [1], [10], [22];
wolves of, [215];
lampreys, [219];
railways, [279];
wrestling matches, [279];
history, [279-80];
province, [280];
San Bartolomé, [280-81];
Santo Domingo, [281-82];
drives, [284-85]
Tuy Cathedral, [278], [280];
exterior portico, [282-83];
built for defence, [283], [286];
parchments, [283-84];
rectangular apse, [284];
cloister, [284]
Tyrol, the Austrian, [264], [333]
Uceda, Captain, [162]
Ulla River, the, [222], [225], [227], [228], [299], [345]
United States, trade with Britain, [180]
Urraca, Queen, [116], [279-80], [349]
Ursula, S., [299]
Usury in Gaul, [181]
Valença, fortress of, [279], [280], [284], [285]
Valencia, [346]
Valerius, Abbot, [33-35], [37], [38]
Valladares, Avelina, [184]
Valparaiso, [175]
Valute, Castro, [228]
Vandals, [15], [29]
Varela family, [240]
Varela, Prof., [197]
Valmar, Marquis of, [53]
Varro, Marcus, [4]
Vatican Library, [52], [55], [244]
Vazquez, Arturo, [26]
Velazquez, [11]
Velazquez, Alonso, [202]
Velez, Archbishop, [103]
Venice, Doge’s palace, [148]
Venta de Baños, [84]
Verdugo, the, [268]
Vespasian, [223]
Vézelay, church of, [97];
façade, [109];
the arcades, [128]
Vianna de Castello, [20]
Vieira. See Shell of St. James
Vienna Museum, [207]
Vigo—
Harbour of, [11], [22], [153], [154], [318];
oysters, [219];
the road to, [276-77];
commercial position, [277];
houses, [278];
Colegiata de Santa Maria, [278];
English attack on, [348]
Vigo, Ria de, [17], [276], [277], [278]
Villagarcia, [149], [205], [245], [254]
Villavieja, [277]
Vine cultivation, [180], [224], [264], [268]
Violante, Queen, [205]
Viollet le Duc, [78] note, [129-30]
Virgen de los Ojos, [304]
Virgen del Pilar, [304]
Visigoths, [83], [84];
churches of the, [86-87]
Wales, [8]
Wallingford, [33]
Walter, minstrel, [53] note
Water supply of Santiago, [202]
Wellington, Duke of, on Moore, [159];
and the Gallegans, [356]
Westminster Abbey, capitals, [127];
memorial of Sir John Moore, [157]
White Tower, London, [98] note;
capitals, [127]
Wilfrid, St., [88]
William X., [69]
William de Rubruquis, [69-70]
Winchester, [284];
capitals, [126-27];
transept, [135]
Witiza, King, [1], [279], [295]
Wolfe, Rev. Charles, [159]
Woman in Galicia, [166], [178], [202], [234];
the women labourers, [249], [269], [355]
Woodwork, stalactite, [194]
Writings. See Inscriptions
Xeito, the, [218]
Yanez de Noboa, Bishop, [294], [295]
Yepes, [45]
York Cathedral, [304]
Zanelo, [65]
Zepedano, [73], [149]

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Barros Sivelo tells us that his friend Sr. Robles collected data for a history of Galicia for twenty-seven years, but died before he had begun to write it.

[2] In the reign of Philip II.

[3] Theophilo Braga.

[4] Barros Sivelo, Antiquedades di Galicia, 1875.

[5] The Bible in Spain, ch. xxvii.

[6] It is believed that Spain was once united to the north African coast, and it is certain that in antiquity the Straits of Gibraltar were much narrower than they are now.

[7] See Cronicon del Obispo Idacio, ed. by Dr. Marcelo Macias, 2nd ed., 1906.