This reel of silent films includes travelogues for Seville and the Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey in Spain. It starts with a silent Dutch film, “A Look at Seville”, that shows images of the Spanish city in the 1930s. Seville is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville, Spain. It is situated on the plain of the river Guadalquivir. The inhabitants of the city are known as sevillanos (feminine form: sevillanas) or hispalenses, after the Roman name of the city, Hispalis.

At 3:43 another film in German profiles Montserrat, a multi-peaked mountain range near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It is well known as the site of the Benedictine abbey, Santa Maria de Montserrat, which hosts the Virgin of Montserrat sanctuary and which is identified by some with the location of the Holy Grail in Arthurian myth. At 8:30 the hollow where the Virgin appeared is shown. At 9:40 the stations of the cross are shown. At 14:00 a dog dressed in a guard uniform stands near the cog railway that services the Abbey.

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