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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
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o an eastern (Riviera di Levante; p. 93) and a larger western half(Riviera di Ponente), which belongs to France from Ventimiglia westwards,is one of the most picturesque regions of Italy. It affords a delightfulvariety of landscapes, bold and lofty promontories alternating with woodedhills, and richly cultivated plains near the coast. At places the roadpasses precipitous and frowning cliffs, washed by the surf of the Mediter-ranean, while the summits are crowned with the venerable ruins oftowers erected in bygone ages for protection against pirates. At otherplaces extensive plantations of olives, with their grotesque and gnarledstems, bright green pine-forests, and luxuriant growths of figs, vines,citrons, oranges, oleanders, myrtles, and aloes meet the view, and evenpalms are occasionally seen. Many of the towns are charmingly situatedin fertile spots or on picturesque hills 5 others, commanded by ancientstrongholds, are perched like nests among the rocks. Little churches and /.Nayif
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