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Page 164 text:
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OUR VISIT TO BARCELONA FROM MAY 15-20 WAS CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE TH UBEST LIBERTY IN THE MEDITERRAN AN.n IT IS PERHAPS THE SPANISH TOWN BEST KNOWN IN EUROPE. FERDINAND AND ISABELLA RECEIVED COLUMBUS ON HIS RETURN FROM THE WEST INDIES. THEY LOVE TH IR PARKS, FOUNTAINS AND DAYS.................. INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION HAS NOT LESSENED THE CIVIC AND HOME- LOVING QUALITIES OF THE PEOPLE OF BARCELONA.
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Page 163 text:
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BARCELONA . SPAIN 4 I 1 1 BARCELONA IS AN ANCIENT CITY, CLAIMING A HISTORY BASED ON LORE AND FACT. HERCULES SUPPOSEDLY FOUND, ON THE BEACH, A BOAT DRIVEN ACROSS THE SEA FROM ITALY AND HENCE NAM D THE BEACH nBARKINONA.n LONG AGO THERE WERE PHOENICIAN AND GREEK SETTLEMENTS ALONG THE SHORE. RECORD- ED HISTORY BEGINS ABOUT 230 B. C. WHEN HAMILCAR BARCO, THE FATHER OF HANNIBAL, FOUNDED THE CITY OF nBARCINO.n IN 87A, THE COUNT WILFRED OF BARCELONA OBTAINED THE PRIVILEGE OF DE- CLARING HEREDITY, AND THE CITY BECAME THE CENTER OF AN INDEPENDENT TERRITORY. IN 1137, THE COUNT OF BARCELONA MARRIED THE DAUGHTER OF THE RULER OF ARAGON AND CATALONIA. DURING THIS PERIOD, THE PORT BE- CAME THE GREAT TRADING CENTER OF THE REGION. DURING THE ILTH AND 15TH CENTURIES, IT RANKED WITH VENICE AND GENOA AS ONE OF THE GREAT PORTS OF THE WORLD. THE CITY LOST SOME OF ITS IMPORTANCE IN 1A92, NHEN ARAGON AND CASTILE WERE INCORPORATED. THE DECLINE OF THE PORT WAS CAUSED BY THE EDICT OF ISABELLA FORBIDDING NON'CATALONIANS TO TRADE NITH THE NEW WORLD, AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1778 THAT THE CATALONIANS WERE ALLOWED TO RESUME FREE TRADE WITH THE AMERICAS. DUE TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE PORT OF BARCELONA BECAME PROSPEROUS AGAIN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND HAS REMAINED ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE CITIES IN SPAIN. V ,
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SOMETHING NEW FOR THE NOVICE SAILOR OF THE M DITERRANEAN WAS---- THE PICADORS ON HORSES TRY TO THRUST THEIR PICA INTO THE BALL OF MUSCLES BEHIND THE BULL'S NECK ...... TO FUR- THER ANGER TH BULL. THEN, AFTER THE ARTISTIC THE SPANISH BULLFIGHT AT THE TOROSaoaesocooaooo AFTER THE PARTICIPANTS PASS THROUGH THE CHAPEL, AND MARCH RINGOIOOIIICIIOOUI MAESTROS PLANT THE SHARP- POINTED BANDERILLAS INTO THE BULL'S NITHERS AND THE MATA- DOR MAKES MANY PASSES WITH THE CAPE T0 TEST THE HISDQM AND COURAGE OF TH BULL..... THE HATADDH IS READY FOR THE KILL. i u fu
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