CIVIDAD RODRIGO, or Rodericopolis, a fortified town in the kingdom of Leon in Spain, was built in the 13th century, on the scite of the ancient Mirobriga. It is situated on the river Agueda, in a flat and good country, which produces grain of all kinds, wine, oil, honey, and almonds.
Cividad Rodrigo is well fortified, and has seven gates. The castle, though of a common construction, is very strong, and the ditch which surrounds the walls has been dug anew. The Ivan around the town is weak, but its platform forms an agreeable promenade. The streets are tolerably regular, and the public buildings are nume rous. There is one cathedral, one collegiate church, six parish churches, five convents of monks, four of nuns, one seminary, and two hospitals. The cathedral, which was built in the time of Ferdinand II. of Leon, is of free stone, but is not finished. The church is Gothic, as well as the two parts of the cloister, but the other two parts are modern. There are three gates to the chapel,
which is adorned with Corinthian columns. The finest piece of architecture is the chapel of Cerralvo, founded in 1588. Its form is square, and the body of it is in the form of a cross ; the exterior decorations are of the Doric order, and the interior of the Ionic, with pilasters and a dome. There is nothing remarkable in any of the other churches, except that of the Augustines, which is well built, and adorned with five orders of architecture. In the church of St Francis in the Fauxburg, there is a handsome chapel, containing the tomb of a bishop of Za mara. The seminary was begun in 1765, and finished in 1769. Another building larger than the first, and of the Doric order, was afterwards added, in which there was a church with vaulted roofs and a cupola. The principal altar is of stucco, anti is of the composite or der. On the Plaza-INIayor there are three Roman co