The Palace of the Escurial, in Toledo built by Felipe 11. to commemorate his victory over the French at St. Quetin is the only building of the kind in the world. It was dedicated to San Lorenza, and Juan Baptista, the architect, took a gridiron as his model. The bars were represented by rows of magnificently-built buildings, and the handle by a superb church. The palace has nearly 2000 rooms, over 6000 windows and doors, and eighty staircases, while seventy-three fountains and the contents of forty-eight wine cellars help to assuage the thiret of this monster gridiron's occupiers. - '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14210, 5 November 1909, Page 6
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98Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14210, 5 November 1909, Page 6
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