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  • Detail of the floor mosaic in the House of Hippolytus, Complutum, near Alcala de Henares, Spain.  An unusual provincial Roman design with varied motifs in monochrome (black, white, brown) with touches of red.
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  • Ancient Roman mosaic panel with fish, eels, and three fishermen in a rowboat using a net.
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  • Facade of the university College of Ildefonso at Alcala de Henares.  Flourish of red roses in the foreground, and a clutch of tourists lined up admiring the building's Plateresque ornamental flourishes around its doors and windows.  The building dates from the turn of the 15th-16th century.  The university, founded by Ximenez de Cisneros, opened in 1508 as the College of St. Ildefonso.  The facade was designed by Rodrigo Gil de Hontanon in the style known as plateresque.
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  • Detail of the facade of the College of San Ildefonso, Alcala Henares, an example of the Spanish Plateresque architectural style of the 16th century.  The building opened in 1506.
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  • Door to the College of San Ildefonso at Alcala Henares, seen partly closed, with another doorway beyond and a group of people outside.
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  • Catedral de los Santos Niños Justo y Pastor de Alcalá de Henares, interior, general view showing organ.  Most pews empty; between services.  Organist and singer rehearsing.
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  • Alcala de Henares cathedral interior showing organ, player, and singer, rehearsing.
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  • View of Toledo, Spain, from across the river where a viewing platform has been established.  This is more or less the vantage point from which El Greco painted his famous view of the city.
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  • Elaborate gilded monstrance on display in the Cathedral of Toledo.  It sits in a dedicated niche with red walls.
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  • Detail of carved beam and stone proto-Ionic column capital in the courtyard of El Greco's house, Toledo, Spain.
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  • Sinagoga del Transito, Museuo Sefardi, Toledo, coffered Mudejar style wooden ceiling
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  • Model of Toledo showing the whole steep hill surrounded by a wall, below it the River Tagus.  The buildings of the town cluster near one of the bridges.
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  • Patsy and Jim near modern statue of a conquistador representing Francisco Pizarro, who was born in Trujillo.  Facade of the 14th century church of Santa Maria la Major.
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  • Elaborate corner sculptures and balcony with family crest, portrait heads, and other 17th century furbelows.
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  • View into a typically Spanish courtyard in the town of Trujillo, Spain.  A central fountain and wellhead, potted cactus, red tiled roofs, white walls.
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  • Remaining pillars of the Roman aqueduct at Merida, Spain.  Two are crowned with stork nests. Ashlar masonry with horizontal narrow bands of red brick.
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  • View of the remains of the ancient Roman Aqueduct at Los Milagros, Merida, Spain.  One woman tourist walks along the bottom of the structure.  Masonry pillars with brick in horizontal bands and arches.
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  • View across the partly reconstructed Roman amphitheater at Merida, Spain.
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  • Rebuilt two storey skena or scene or scaena frons building of the Roman theater at Merida, built 16-15 BC by Vipsanius Agrippa, then consul.  White marble columns stand out in front of a rubble masonry and brick wall behind them.
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  • Ancient Roman bridge over the Guadiana River, Merida, Spain.  It has been kept in good repair and traffic still uses it. Its perfect hemicycles are perfectly reflected in the river as a mirror.
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  • Cordoba, Callejon de las Flores at night, with cathedral spire rising above it.  A few pedestrians seen from behind walk toward the end of the alley.
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  • Exterior view of the Cordoba Mezquita walls, above which a passenger balloon inscribed "VICTORIA" floats.
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  • Gypsy accordionist performs on the pedestrian bridge into the old city of Cordoba, Spain.  Pedestrians and a white dog pass by.
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  • across the Guadalquivir River
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  • Ancient Roman dining couch as excavated at Almenadilla, near Cordoba.  The site known in Spain as Villa Romana de "el Ruedo." Appears to have been a sanitarium or hospice where sick people went to be cared for until death.
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  • View of a room in the ancient Roman sanitarium at Almendinilla with monochrome floor mosaics with symmetrical curvelinear designs.
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  • Brass plate embedded in a stone wall in Cordoba, commemorating the expulsion of Jews from Spain in the 17th century.
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  • Interior of the Mezquita, or Grand Mosque of Cordoba, showing its forest of columns and overlapping banded arches.  Shadowed, mysterious, and dignified.
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  • Interior of the Mezquita, or Grand Mosque of Cordoba, showing a woman tourist walking through the forest of columns and giving it scale.  Flash exposure stops her motion while the arches above are slightly blurred.
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  • Detail of the overlapping arches in the Grand Mosque of Cordoba, or Mezquita.  Image is tilted to create a diagonal patterns of the red brick stripes in the arches.  A hanging lamp illuminates them.
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  • Partial view of the refectory at the Carthusian monastery in Granada, with a view through a glass door into one side of the cloister.  Simple plaster walls with bench and the pulpit from which one monk would read aloud as the others ate.
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  • Figure of a Carthusian monastic saint thoughtfully examining a human skull held in his hand.
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  • Statue of an angel flourishing a red robe and flashing a little bare leg behind the altar of the high Baroque church of the Carthusian Monastery in Granada.
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  • Interior of a megalithic dolmen site at Menga, Antequera, Spain.  The site has been nominated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
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