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Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
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
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ndyshore, but it is at length completed, and thousands of strangers traverse it yearly. Here, aswe speed along with the swiftness of the wind, we get a glimpse of a blue chain of mountainsdelicately outlined on the distant sky, and are told that those are the mountains ofCarrara ; and presently in the bay that opens beautifully before us, we come in sight ofSpezia. The town itself is small, and devoid of splendour or attraction, although they arebuilding new palaces there every year, but its position amid a green background of olive-trees is enchanting. The harbour of Spezia, lying between two fortified points of rock, is renowned all overthe world, and is said to be one of the finest harbours for ships of war in Europe. The firstNapoleon ordered surveys to be made, and occupied himself with strengthening the defencesof the place from whence he thought he could command the whole of the Mediterranean.Now a fleet of the Italian Royal Navy lies at anchor there; and whenever the political
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OF THE ON THE RIVIERA DI LEV ANTE. 145 horizon looks stormy in Southern Europe, Spezia becomes once more a word of power.Amongst the historical reminiscences of the place may be reckoned the stay made there byGaribaldi after he was taken prisoner at Aspromonte. He had, as is well known, been

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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;

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