Paestum is more poetic, Baalbec a hundred times more grandiose, but Mérida on a showery, sunshiny day in spring is an ideal spot for musing and rambling.
Mérida is small,--frugal and neat, as are the larger number of Spanish towns.
A pause of three hours between trains seemed to give ample time to see the Cathedral, but the scramble into which the visit to Lérida degenerated was proof that no limited period is ample time in this country of leisurely ease.
Mérida is too small to have visitors pass a day there without making friends among its courteous people.
Except for the architect, Lérida to-day hardly repays a visit.
Looking out on the view which embraced Mérida on one side and a line of rugged hills on the other, we lingered for hours in that Theatre of the Seven Seats.
In the next year the Arab Musa came from Africa with another army, and took Mérida after an obstinate siege which lasted a year.
Jaime I followed the custom of the era in founding universities, establishing one at Lérida and another at Valencia.
Rentería y Reyes of Lérida was carried under guard to Barcelona, narrowly escaped execution, and was detained in Málaga until 1823.
He aroused the slumbering intellect of Spain by founding the Academies of Language and of History and of Medicine, the Seminary of the Nobles, and the National Library, and he replaced for Catalonia the University of Lérida by that of Cervera.
The former is a history of the Conquest written in Maya, by a native noble, who was an adult at the time that Mérida was founded (1542).
Then-- sa hon valkyrior saw she valkyries vitt um komnar far travelled gaurvar at rida equipped to ride til Godthjodar to Goththjod.
Mrs. Rida Johnson Young's silly play called Brown of Harvard was made worth seeing by the genius of Mr. Henry Miller as a producer.
It was scarcely ten when we arrived at Mérida and took our old quarters at the Moromuzo.
The second day in Mérida we had sent for a competent physician, who assured us that nothing was the matter excepting an unimportant attack of bilious fever, and that with a day or two of treatment he should be entirely recovered.
Progreso and Mérida were visited, and our work was done upon the Mayas living near the town of Tekax.
The last day of our stay in Mérida we saw the xtoles.
During the four days we spent in Mérida we met several persons interested in literary lines, and visited a number of institutions, among which the most interesting was the Museo Yucateco, of which Señor Gamboa Guzman is in charge.
Conditions in Mérida are the most abnormal of any place which I have visited.
Mérida itself is much larger and better built than we had expected.
He insisted so eloquently on receiving permission to advance, that at last he obtained it, with authorization to occupy the southwestern provinces of Venezuela: Mérida and Trujillo.
He was still in Mérida when in a proclamation he spoke of avenging the victims, and threatened with war to death.
The cities of Mérida and Trujillo declared for the King.
The writer became acquainted with many of the prominent families of Mérida and Campeachy, from whom he received hospitable courtesies and attentions; but it would here be out of place to acknowledge personal obligations.
From the cities of Mérida and Campeachy, public conveyances leave at stated times for some of the more important towns; but travellers to other points are obliged to depend on private transportation.
The cities of Mérida and Campeachy are much like Havana in general appearance.
Mérida is built upon the location of the ancient town Tihoo, and the materials of the Indian town were used in its construction.
A railroad from Mérida to the port of Progreso, a distance of sixteen miles, was in process of being built, but the writer is not aware of its completion.
The conquerors founded the present city of Mérida on the site of the Indian town, with all legal formalities, in January, 1542.
The result is that the number of wells is small, and in the cities of Mérida and Campeachy rain water is frequently stored in large cisterns for domestic purposes.
The provinces of Huesca in Aragon and Lérida and Urgel in Catalonia were united as an inquisitorial district at least as early as 1490, when we hear of "the inquisitors of Huesca and Lérida" taking testimony.
WHEAT This product was introduced into Venezuela by the Spaniards at the beginning of the conquest and was cultivated in Aragua, Barquisimeto, Trujillo, Mérida and the Táchira.
Lérida and Tarragona, in an entirely different and in a much more primitive style.
My readers will agree with me, when they have realized to themselves what is to be seen, that such a cathedral as that of Lérida is in itself worth the journey from England.
Between Cervera and Lérida the country is very uninteresting until near the end of the journey, when a good view of Lérida, and the cliff above the river, is obtained.
Pedro Balaguer was sent from Valencia to examine the tower at Lérida before he built the tower called the Micalete in his own city; and we may conclude therefore that before this date the work at Lérida had been completely finished.
The old outside roof is destroyed; but the finish of the lanterns of Lérida and of the old cathedral of Salamanca seems to make it pretty certain that it was intended to have a pyramidal or domical stone roof.
Plans of Churches at Benavente, La Coruña, Segovia, and Lérida 137 9.
TO the north of the railway between Lérida and Zaragoza, and within easy distance of the stations of Monzon and Tardienta, are the two old Aragonese cities of Barbastro and Huesca Monzon--a possession of the Knights Templars since A.
This line is supplemented by a branch from Arroyo to the city of Cáceres, and thence southwards to Mérida in Badajoz.
Adapted from the novel "Out of the Night" by Rida Johnson Young.
From the operetta by Victor Herbert andRida Johnson Young.
From the play and book byRida Johnson Young and Gilbert P.
A dozen or more of the peaks in the Mérida range are snow-capped, and two of them—Concha and Coluna—rise to a height of over fifteen thousand feet.
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