The city was very fine and cut beautiful streets and squares, adorned with opulent palaces, but what particularly impressed him were the terraced gardens set high on the Euphrates and supported by vaults prodigious height. Ornate of the finest trees, with plenty of inriquecidos showiest flowers were cut from crystal clear streams, fed by water brought through time aquellas aqueduct and ingenhosissimos apparatuses. They gave superb entry into the garden stairs, {24} ornate statues and precious vessels, in which vegetated the rarest flowers and shrubs of all the countries then known.

In construction d’aquellas walls and other opulent that Babylon, Semiramis employed 2.000:000 men for many years. Immortalize themselves aquellas queen, not only n’isso, but also in the administration knew he held in their states and the organization of their armies, which always reigned the discipline stricter and more severe and that she commands in person many times.