Identifier: southernitalysic00karl (find matches)
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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bishop. The surrounding country is fertile but subject to fever. Brundisium was a very famous place in ancient history. At an early period it was colonized by Tarentum, and subsequently by Rome, B.C. 245;and it formed the termination of the Via Appia, which was constructed in the 2nd cent. B.C. and led hither via Venusia and Tarentum. Horaces description (Sat. i. 5) of his journey from Rome to Brundisium, B.C. 37, in the company of Maecenas is well known. At Brundisium the tragic poet Pacuvius was born about B.C. 220, and here, in B.C. 19, Virgil died on his return from Greece (some ruins near the harbour being still pointed out to the credulous as the remains of the house where he expired). The town,when occupied by Pompey, B.C. 49, sustained a memorable siege at the hands of Caesar, who describes the event in the first book of his Civil War. The fleets of the Crusaders frequently assembled in the harbour of Brundisium, and in 1227 several thousand Crusaders perished here from sxito\!Bsa-±
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Harbour. BRINDISI. 18. Route. 233 want and disease. The place soon declined after the cessation of the Crusades. It was subsequently destroyed by Lewis, King of Hungary,in 1348, and again by a fearful earthquake in 1458, which buried most of the inhabitants beneath its ruins. The entrance to the inner harbour became filled with sand, and the harbour itself degenerated into a meremorass. The channel was not opened again until 1775. In 1866 the Italian government lined it with masonry and deepened the harbour, thus laying the foundation for the present prosperity of Brindisi. The Inner Harbour is admirably sheltered from every wind. It consists of two arms formed by erosion: the Seno di Ponte Grande to the N. (1968 ft. in length), and the Seno di Ponte Piccolo to the S. (1480 ft. in length). The largest ocean steamers may enter the latter and lie at the quay. A channel, 565 yds. long and 165 ft.broad, connects both arms with the outer harbour, the seaward entrance to which is divided into two by

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