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Identifier: 10866333.5342.emory.edu
Title: Italy: a handbook for travellers. First Part (Nothern Italy)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: Emory University, Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library
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12 fr. 70, 8 fr. 95 c.); to Mantua (2572 M.) in 3/4-174 hr. (fares 4 fr. 50, 3 fr.15 c, 2 fr.; express 5 fr. 10, 3 fr. 60 c). — This will continue to be the ex-press route to Florence and Rome until the new direct line between Dosso-buono (see below) and Bologna is completed. Verona, see p. 207. The line traverses a rich plain, dotted withtrees. Near Mantua are fields of rice. — 7 M. Dossobuono. Dossobuono is the junction of a new direct line to Bologna, still un-finished, and of the Verona and Rovigo Railway (6272 M., in 372 hrs.).Stations unimportant. — 3372 M. Legnago, a town of 3500 inhab., for-tified by the Austrians after 1815 to defend the passage of the Adige, isalso a station on the Mantua and Monselice line (p. 225). It was the birth-place of Giov. Bait. Cavalcaselle (1S27-97), the art critic. — 6272 M. Rovigo,see p. 334. 11 M. Villafranca di Verona (Alb. del Sole), with a ruined castleof the Scaligers, where the preliminaries of a peace between France \ ■———
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Geograph.AnsraM.-ron. MANTUA. 38. Route. 221 and Austria were concluded on 11th July, 1859, after the battle ofSolferino. About 5 M. to the N.W. lies Custozza, where the Italianswere defeated by the Austrians in 1848 and 1866. A monumentto the fallen was erected here in 1879. — l^1/^ M. Mozzecane;18 M. Roverbella; 23 M. S. Antonio Mantovano. The train now passes the Citadel of Mantua, where AndreasHofer, the Tyrolese patriot, was shot by the French on 20th Feb.,1810. The citadel and the town are connected by the Argine Mu-lino (a bridge constructed in 1257), which divides the lakes formedhere by the Mincio into the Lago Superiore (W.) and the Lago diMezzo (E.). 25y2 M. Mantua. Station to the W. of the town (PI. A, 3, 4). Mantua. — Hotels. Aquila (TOro, Via Sogliari (PI. B, 3), R., L., & A.3!/2, omn. zj\ fr., well spoken of; *Senonek , near the post-office, alsorestaurant, with electric light, II. 2, omn. V2 fr- — Travellers should avoidspending a night at Mantua in summer, a

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