282 SPANISH AECHITECTUEE. Part II. Sicily it is never safe to assume that because the style of a building is Moorish, even j^urely so, the structure must belong to the time when the Moors possessed the country, or to a hajDpy interval, if any such existed, when a more than usually tolerant reign permitted them to erect edifices for themselves under the rule of their Christian conquerors. Sometimes Ave find Moorisli details mixed up with those of Gothic architecture in a manner elsewhere unknown, as for instance in the doorway, in Woodcut No. 727, from the house of the Ablala at Valencia. The wood-work is of jjurely Moorish design, the stone* work of the bad unconstructive Gothic of the late Spanish architects, altogether making up a combination more picturesque than beautiful, at least in an architectural point of view. 727. Doorway from Valencia. (From Chapuy.)
