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Title: Guide to Italy and Sicily
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macmillan & Co
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Publisher: London, MacMillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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sibleto drive or motor through the latterby roads recently made and returnby the Via Laurentina (a pleasantbicycle excursion also). Along theold coast-line (here some \ m. fromthe modern), going S.E. as faras Tor Paterno, are the remainsof many ancient Roman villas ; inone of them the Discobolus (p. 241)was found. XXI. Veii. The single traveller may economic-ally visit this interesting Etruscansite by railway (Route 79), and thetrain leaves Rome and returns tothe city at convenient hours. Butthe excursion may also be made bycarriage (2 horses, about 25 fr.), oron horseback. Luncheon should becarried. The train quits Rome bythe Trastevere Station, outside thePorta Portese (p. 261). From the station of (12 m.) LaStorta we follow the high roadtowards Bracciano for a few yds.,and take a footpath to the rt. Thisleads due N. in J hr. to the pic-turesque but miserable village ofIsola Farnese, where a guide maybe obtained (4 to 5 fr.). The car-riage road makes a long circuit toavoid the hill.
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GUIDE TO ITALY Salerno 289 Veii was one of the twelve citiesof the Etruscan League, but very little else is known of its ancienthistory. It was taken by Camillusin B.c. 396, and so completely ruinedby its ten years siege as to remainalmost a desert tor upwards ofthree centuries. Julius Caesar (cir..) colonised it with a Romansettlement, but it does not appeartohave ever maintained a populationof any numerical importance inhistoric times. The ancient cityforms an irregular indented ovallying generally from N.W. to S.E.,at to ul U m. long, and f m. broad.Its sides were washed by two brooks,which united below the Citadel atthe S.E. angle of the town. Descending from Isola FarneseN.W. towards the brook, we reacha little cataract by a mill (Molino),and turn N.E. to an ancient gate-way. Thence N. across the highground to the Ponte Socio, a bridgeor tunnel excavated in the tufa rockto afford a passage for the river.E. of this point is the Grotta Cam-pana, a painted Tomb also hewn in•k. wit

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