Italy : Handbook for Travellers: Third Part, Southern Italy, Sicily, the Lipari IslandsK. Baedeker, 1867 - 356 pagina's |
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Achradina Ætna Albergo Amalfi amphitheatre ancient ascends beautiful boat Calabria Capo Capri Capua carriage Carthaginians Castello castle Catania cathedral celebrated cent chapel Charles Chiaia church coast columns contains crater crosses descends district eminence entrance erected excursion extends fares farther Fiume Frederick Frederick II Giarre Giovanni Girgenti Greek grotto harbour height Herculaneum Himera Hôtel inhab inhabitants inscription Ischia island Italian Italy Largo leads Locanda lofty magnificent marble Maria mediæval Melazzo Messina monastery Monte monument mosaic mountain Naples Neapolitan Nola occupied Pæstum palace Palazzo Palermo Piazza picturesque Pompeii Porta Posilipo possesses Pozzuoli principal Procida promontory railway reached road Robert Guiscard rock Roman Rome route ruins Salerno Saracens Sicilian Sicily side situated skirts Sorrento Stat statue Strada street summit Syracuse temple theatre thence Thermæ Toledo tomb Torre town Trapani traveller traverses valley Vesuvius vicinity village walls whence whilst
Populaire passages
Pagina ix - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility : Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Pagina 87 - Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces.
Pagina 119 - Mount Vesuvius is covered with beautiful meadows, with the exception of the summit. The latter is indeed for the most part level but quite sterile. For it has an appearance like ashes, and shows rugged rocks of sooty consistency and colour, as if they had been consumed by fire.