Excerpt from Seeing Europe With Famous Authors, Vol. 9

Many tourists now enter Spain from Gibraltar; others enter from the north where two routes from Paris are available, one by the western end of the Pyrenees through Biarritz, the other by the eastern end through Perpignan.

Phoenicians were in Spain perhaps a thousand years before the Christian era, but the Phoenicians were traders, not colonists. The earliest known settlers were Iberians, followed, about 500 B.C. by Celts. About 240 B.C. came the Carthaginians, but Rome during the Punic Wars expelled them. Eventually Rome conquered the entire peninsula, the Basques of the northwest excepted. It was a grim struggle for Rome, however, and lasted nearly two hundred years. Scipio ?milianus was the first Roman to subdue any large part of the country. Afterward, Julius C?sar pushed the work still further forward. Thenceforth for two hundred years Rome was mistress of the country.

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