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Title: Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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now situated here. About IV2 M. from Priolo, and visible from the railway (left), stands theTo7re del Marcello, probably the remains of a tomb, but commonly reputedto be a trophy erected here by Marcellus on the site of his camp after theconquest of Syracuse. To the right appears the hill with the village of Belvedere andthe signal-station (p. 417). The train now skirts the Trogiius, thebay where the fleet of Marcellus lay, and approaches the terracewhich extended from Belvedere to Capo Santa Panagia and borethe N. Dionysian town-wall of the Achradina. It crosses the wallnear the Tyche quarter of the town and runs eastwards to Capo SantaPanagia. Beyond (50 M.) Santa Panagia it runs along theE. slopeof the terrace (finally through a deep cutting), and does not emergefrom the rocks until just before reaching Syracuse. To the left wehave a fine view of the sea and the island with the modern town.To the right is the Capuchin Monastery with its Latomia. 54 M. Siracusa. CBurip SJju.cia. li^
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