File:Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14753556186).jpg

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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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morestriking here than at Trent, dazzling white walls meet our eyes on every side,cypresses and fig-trees become more numerous, in the gardens blooms a more variedand gaily coloured Flora; and even the abundant waters which sparkle everywhere inwells and fountains furnish a symptom of southern proclivities. It makes the heart beatquicker when we see the women of Roveredo, who enjoy the reputation of being pecu-liarly beautiful, moving along the Corso Nuovo towards the long avenue which is thegeneral promenade on cool evenings. They glide along chatting and whispering, drapedin black silk, their brilliant eyes half concealed behind their fans; and the beggar whoimplores them for a trifling alms, calls them Madonna. Near Pacco a ferry crosses the Adige. From this point we cast a last look back atthe pretty town ; then our road lies far away ; the next evening we are looking at bluemurmuring waters, as the moon rises slowly behind Monte Baldo. These are the watersof the Lago di Garda. E
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RIVA. ON THE LAGO DI GARDA. WO roads lead through the Trentino to the Lake of Garda. The one (knownto thousands of tourists) branches off from Mori to Riva: the other much lessbetravelled but finer and bolder, leads from Trent through the Val di Sarca.Not long after leaving Trent we enter a gigantic rocky gorge called Buco diVela. Above its rugged walls only a strip of blue sky is visible, and the tremblingaspen clings to the clefts of the rock : here and there a mountain-stream murmursover a stony bed, and turns a solitary mill-wheel in the valley. We emerge from theravine close to the little lake of Terlago, whose waters reflect a world of stone allaround it. There are many similar lonely mountain tarns in the Val di Sarca; theyform indeed a characteristic feature of it and, as it were, prepare us to approach the vastbasin in which the ebb of prehistoric centuries has left behind the Lago di Garda.Scarcely has Terlago disappeared, when we come to Lago Toblino, out of whose silentdep

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