Spain of To-Day, 1890: A Descriptive, Industrial, and Financial Survey of the Peninsula, With a Full Account of the Rio...
- ISBN-10
- 0428706738
- ISBN-13
- 9780428706739
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 172
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-10
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- R. Lawson
Description
Excerpt from Spain of to-Day, 1890: A Descriptive, Industrial, and Financial Survey of the Peninsula, With a Full Account of the Rio Tinto Mines The station itself is still smart and well kept, and in the distance it has a background of handsome villas peeping out from the pine-woods but Biar ritz proper is not visible, and is hardly worth a day's labour to hunt up. Just beyond it there are prettier gems of natural beauty. The next station to Biarritz - Guethary - has of late become a strong rival to it. After twenty minutes of panting up hills and rushing through dark tunnels, the train all at once shoots out on a Shelf of rock, at the foot of which the Atlantic breakers are rolling in with a heavy boom. Two minutes' walk from the station takes you down to the beach. The bay is quite narrow - merely a little corner Of the Bay of Biscay that has cut a sharp dent into the mountain - barrier which holds back the Bay itself. Immediately beyond the sea is lost again, and does not reappear till St Jean de Luz, which, though a much more important place than our little Guethary, is not to be compared with it in picturesqueness. Guethary consists as yet of only about a dozen houses perched on the cliffs two or three of them are hotels and the rest villas. But it is becoming popular as a bathing-place, and its season, from July to September, is every year more prosperous. Parties making a round of the Pyrenees are also beginning to take a few weeks of it on their way to Arcachon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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