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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and Sasso, as the scenery is very beautiful. The
road follows the railway till it reaches Prato in
Toscana, from the pulpit of whose cathedral is
exhibited on favoured occasions the girdle of the
Virgin. The road now turns into the Apennines
and ascends the Valley of the Bisenzio, passing
through many little villages to whose hospitality
Garibaldi owed his escape from the Austrian
tyrants. Reaching Mercatale, the road crosses a
narrow gorge and commences to rise rapidly. Half-
way up the ascent we encountered a storm, and for
a time were entirely enveloped in the clouds. Soon,
however, the sun forced himself through the heav
ymists and shone with renewed brilliancy. Beneath
us we could see the remains of the storm sullenly
retreating down the valley before the attack of the
good fairies of summer. La Serra is the summit,
some 2500 feet above Florence, and from here the
road commences a long and easy descent. Some
distance further and we could see, far, far away,
upon the point of a steep hill, the church of the
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PEASANTS DRIVE THEIR HERDS OF WILD BUFFALO INTO THE WATERS TO WALLOW
THE PONTINE MARSHES

A FLYING GLIMPSE OF ITALY

Campo Santo of Bologna. In the town itself the
streets are sheltered on either hand by arched
colonnades, a defence against snow and a sufficient
reminder that we were now in the coldest city of
Italy. Bologna has many special sights to visit.
Her massive cathedral, her two handsome piazzas,
especially the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, in which
Ugo Bassi and Gavazzi preached the doctrine of
liberty, sowing the seed of future greatness in the
minds of the people. Garibaldi's name starts up at
every turn, even clinging to us at night in the
famous Hotel Brun. Also Bologna boasts the pos-
session of two leaning towers ; unlike the one at
Pisa, these campaniles are ugly in the extreme,
being square and built of brick. One, only 160 feet
high, is ten feet out of the perpendicular and closed
as unsafe ; the other rises beside it—320 feet—like
an immense square chimney, and is four feet out.
The interior is pitch dark, and the ascent is made
by frail wooden ladders laid against projecting
stones.

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