Note 27 — OTROS CUENTOS

Salón del Prado, "the Prado, properly speaking, is a very broad avenue not very long, flanked by minor avenues, which extends to the east of the city, at one side of the famous garden of the Buen Retiro, and is shut in at the two extremities by two enormous stone fountains, the one surmounted by a colossal Cybele, seated upon a shell, and drawn by water-horses; the other by a Neptune of equal size; both of them crowned with copious jets of water, which cross and gracefully fall again with a cheerful murmur. This great avenue, hedged in on the sides by thousands of chairs and hundreds of benches belonging to water and orange-venders, is the most frequented part of the Prado, and is called the salon of the Prado."