Portuguese Architecture Walter Crum Watson 30 İndirim — Walter Crum Watson

Walter Crum Watson tarafından kaleme alınan Portuguese Architecture Platanus Publishing eseri olarak okurlarla buluşuyor Portuguese Architecture Walter Crum Watson Kitap Özeti No one c one can look at a map of the Iberian Peninsula without being struck by the curious way in which it is unequally divided between two independent countries Spain occupies by far the larger part of the Peninsula leaving to Portugal only a narrow strip on the western seaboard some one hundred miles wide and three hundred and forty long Besides the two countries are separated the one from the other by merely artificial boundaries The two largest rivers of the Peninsula the Douro and the Tagus rise in Spain but finish their course in Portugal and the Guadiana runs for some eighty miles through Portuguese territor before acting for a second time as a boundar y between the two countries The same to a lesser degree is true of the mountains The Gerez and the Marão are only offshoots of the Cantabrian mountains and the Serra da Estrella in Beira is but a continuation of the Sierra de Gata which separates Leon from Spanish Estremadura Indeed the only natural frontiers are formed by the last thirty miles of the Minho in the north by about eighty miles of the Douro which in its deep and narrow gorge really separates Traz os Montes from Leon by a few miles of the Tagus and by the Guadiana both before and after it runs through a part of Alemtejo Yayınevi Platanus Publishing Yazar Walter Crum Watson Sayfa 373 Sayfa Kağıt 2 Hamur Boyut 14 00x21 00 cm Basım Yılı Mayıs 2020 Barkod 9786257078795 Kategori Bilim Mühendislik Yabancı Dilde Kitaplar Mühendislik

No one c one can look at a map of the Iberian Peninsula without being struck by the curious way in which it is unequally divided between two independent countries Spain occupies by far the larger part of the Peninsula leaving to Portugal only a narrow strip on the western seaboard some one hundred miles wide and three hundred and forty long Besides the two countries are separated the one from the other by merely artificial boundaries The two largest rivers of the Peninsula the Douro and the Tagus rise in Spain but finish their course in Portugal and the Guadiana runs for some eighty miles through Portuguese territor before acting for a second time as a boundar y between the two countries The same to a lesser degree is true of the mountains The Gerez and the Marão are only offshoots of the Cantabrian mountains and the Serra da Estrella in Beira is but a continuation of the Sierra de Gata which separates Leon from Spanish Estremadura Indeed the only natural frontiers are formed by the last thirty miles of the Minho in the north by about eighty miles of the Douro which in its deep and narrow gorge really separates Traz os Montes from Leon by a few miles of the Tagus and by the Guadiana both before and after it runs through a part of Alemtejo

Walter Crum Watson tarafından kaleme alınan Portuguese Architecture Gece Kitaplığı eseri olarak okurlarla buluşuyor Portuguese Architecture Walter Crum Watson Kitap Özeti The buildings of Portugal with one or two exceptions cannot be said to excel or even to come up to those of other countries To a large extent the churches are without the splendid furniture which makes those of Spain the most romantic in the world nor are they in themselves so large or so beautiful Some apology then may seem wanted for imposing on the public a book whose subject matter is not of first class importance The present book is the outcome of visits to Portugal in April or May of three successive years and during these visits the writer became so fond of the country and of its people so deeply interested in the history of its glorious achievements in the past and in the buildings which commemorate these great deeds that it seemed worth while to try and interest others in them Another reason for writing about Portugal instead of about Spain is that the country is so much smaller that it is no very difficult task to visit every part and see the various buildings with one s own eyes besides in no language does there exist any book dealing with the architecture of the country as a whole There are some interesting monographs in Portuguese about such buildings as the palace at Cintra or Batalha while the Renaissance has been fully treated by Albrecht Haupt but no one deals at all adequately with what came before the time of Dom Manoel Yayınevi Gece Kitaplığı Yazar Walter Crum Watson Sayfa 373 Sayfa Kağıt 2 Hamur Boyut 13 50x21 00 cm Basım Yılı Mart 2018 Barkod 9786052883402 Kategori Yabancı Dilde Kitaplar Mimarlık

No one c one can look at a map of the Iberian Peninsula without being struck by the curious way in which it is unequally divided between two independent countries Spain occupies by far the larger part of the Peninsula leaving to Portugal only a narrow strip on the western seaboard some one hundred miles wide and three hundred and forty long Besides the two countries are separated the one from the other by merely artificial boundaries The two largest rivers of the Peninsula the Douro and the Tagus rise in Spain but finish their course in Portugal and the Guadiana runs for some eighty miles through Portuguese territor before acting for a second time as a boundar y between the two countries The same to a lesser degree is true of the mountains The Gerez and the Marão are only offshoots of the Cantabrian mountains and the Serra da Estrella in Beira is but a continuation of the Sierra de Gata which separates Leon from Spanish Estremadura Indeed the only natural frontiers are formed by the last thirty miles of the Minho in the north by about eighty miles of the Douro which in its deep and narrow gorge really separates Traz os Montes from Leon by a few miles of the Tagus and by the Guadiana both before and after it runs through a part of Alemtejo Tanıtım Bülteninden

The buildings of Portugal with one or two exceptions cannot be said to excel or even to come up to those of other countries To a large extent the churches are without the splendid furniture which makes those of Spain the most romantic in the world nor are they in themselves so large or so beautiful Some apology then may seem wanted for imposing on the public a book whose subject matter is not of first class importance The present book is the outcome of visits to Portugal in April or May of three successive years and during these visits the writer became so fond of the country and of its people so deeply interested in the history of its glorious achievements in the past and in the buildings which commemorate these great deeds that it seemed worth while to try and interest others in them Another reason for writing about Portugal instead of about Spain is that the country is so much smaller that it is no very difficult task to visit every part and see the various buildings with one s own eyes besides in no language does there exist any book dealing with the architecture of the country as a whole There are some interesting monographs in Portuguese about such buildings as the palace at Cintra or Batalha while the Renaissance has been fully treated by Albrecht Haupt but no one deals at all adequately with what came before the time of Dom Manoel