This mansion belonged to the noble family of Mediana, and formed part of the grand estates of this ancient house. It is an old chateau-perhaps the only building of this character in Spain-whose slate roofs and gothic turrets and vanes, rising above the highest point of the cliffs, overlook the houses of the village. There is one building, however, that is conspicuous-so much so as to form the principal feature of the landscape. In these the common dwellings, there is not much variety of architecture since the village is almost exclusively inhabited by poor fishermen. On both sides, the houses, disposed in a sort of echelon, rise, terrace-like, one above the other so that viewed from a distance, the street presents the appearance of a gigantic stairway. Lying within an amphitheatre of cliffs, whose crests rise above the roofs of the houses, the port is protected from the surge of the sea by a handsome little jetty of chiselled stone while the single street of which the village is composed, commencing at the inner end of the mole, sweeps boldly up against the face of the precipice. No landscape on the Biscayan coast, presents a more imposing and picturesque aspect than the little village of Elanchovi.
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