Identifier: switzerlandtoget00karluoft (find matches)
Title: Switzerland, together with Chamonix and the Italian lakes : handbook for travellers
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Subjects: Switzerland -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig, K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons 597 Fifth Ave.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ach in the Roman Toion Walls, which are flan^ked Mth strong towers and still exist almost in their entire circuit, faJinl fnH ■^^^^.^Sle 792 by 625 yds. On the S.W. side the ancient lacing and cornice of the wall are still intact. In the Jardin Public 336 V. Boute SO. AOSTA. (PI. B, 2) is a bronze statue of Victor Emmanuel II. in hunting-costume (roi ehassenr), by Tortone. In the Place Charles-Albert, where the chief streets intersect,is the Hotel de Ville (PI. 4; 15, 1), containing the collections of theItalian Alpine Club. To the N.E., in the Hue du Theatre-Rnmain,are the remains nf the Eomau Theatre (PI. 9; B, 1) and the ar-ches of the Amphitheatre. The Rue Humbert-Premier, running to the E. from the PlaceCharles-Albert, jiasses through the ancient Porta Prutoria to the(/4 M.) *TriMmphal Arch of Auymtus (PI. C, 1), with its tenCorinthian pilasters, then crosses the Buthier, which changed itschannel in the middle ages, to the massive arch of a RomanBridge, half sunk in the ground.
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In the Rue St. Our.s is thr church of SSt. Uurs (Pl.C, 1), thecrypt of which is borne by Roman eidumns; in the choir are thetomb of Bishop Gallus (d. 546) and tinely-carved stalls (15lh cent.).The cloisters have early-Romantsque columns (12th cent.). Adjoin-ing the church is a 12th cent, campanile. In front of the chapelopposite are two antiijue columns. -- The Priory of St. Ours, closeby, is a picturesque building of the 15th cent., with terracottadecoration and an octagonal tower. Good wood-carvings and fres-coes in the interior. The Catiikkual (PI. B, 1; 14th cent.), with a gaudily-paintedrelief above its main portal, was badly restored in 1837. In thechoir are two mosaics of the 10th cent.. enrly-Renaissance carvedstalls, and the tomb of Count Thomas of Flanders (d. 1259;. Thetreasory contains two reliquaries of the 13th and 15th cent., a AOSTA. Map8,pp.33I,a63.~V. B.80. 337 cameo of a Romau empress in a setting of the 13th cent., and adiptych of Probns (consul in 406) and the Emp

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