Word: segovia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture which has been given the central place in the Zuloaga exhibition is a view of the ancient walled city of Segovia. There is also a painting of the Cathedral at Bengos. These two pictures will be of interest to the connoisseur who knows Zuloaga only from his portraits, gypsies, and veiled senoritas...
Architects Collens and Pelton went from Paris to Barcelona in a motor car last summer to get ideas for the new church. They studied how the Gothic architects threw stone into the sky like lace. It took them 21 days. At Le Mans, Carcassonne, Burgos, Leon, Valencia, Salamanca, Segovia and Toledo, they admired the Cathedrals, but they liked Chartres best...
...sooner was this stratagem for maintaining the Dictator in power announced than the artillery officer's clique (whose prerogatives he has curtailed) fomented mutinies at Segovia and Valladolid...