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Southern Italy: With Sicily, and Sardinia PDF

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BLUE GUIDE EDITED BY L. RUSSELL MUIRHEAD ITALY Ca By THE Blue Guide to Southern Italy, re- written and brought up to date, com- pletes the post-war description of the country. Within the area described are the cities of Magna Graecia—Paestum, Segesta, Agrigento—with a succession of Doric temples scarcely surpassed in Greece itself, and others—Syracuse, Taormina, Gela—with famous theatres and fortresses. Hardly less impressive are the Roman remains, which include Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the mosaics at Piazza Armerina. Southern Italy owes to its many conquests the diversity of its monuments: catacombs survive at Syracuse; Saracen styles linger in Amalfi and Palermo, the Norman style in Monreale and Apulia; Spanish influences contributed in Naples and Sicily to an exuberant flowering of Baroque art. This is a land for which reliable in- formation has not been readily available, and full attention is here given to every aspect of the past. But in addition it is the land of Naples and its Bay ; Vesuvius, and the famed resorts of Capri, Ischia, and Sorrento; the magnificently scenic province of Calabria; Etna, offering winter-sports; and unspoilt Sardinia. For the unashamed holiday-maker a section on food and wine supplements the usual detailed information about hotels, transport, etc. New maps and town-plans have been specially drawn for the edition. 63d7ne5.t. iJ a ru ra O ee) Fr cm Pe sy =) T>ias CIVITAVECCHIA > ao a PantellericS) and Lampedusa - ee onCa eoaef. Caron 5A\ Co | 4 San Severoe GOR iy, Lucer5a)p Troia® 6A O ‘AA 1 “¥ .BENEVENTO We 7 Melfie AV LLINO pel! y TOWN PLANS AGRIGENTO 218 BARI 135 BRINDISI 139 CAGLIARI 282 CATANIA 236 ENNA 225 LECCE 141 MESSINA 169 NAPLES ii11i,3 3,,3 9 PALERMO SORRENTO SYRACUSE TAORMINA TARANTO SOUTHERN ITALY , aee i NAPLES I 500 1000 YARDS 500 1000 METRES YaMILE See: v ai“Eni m“naine it| AA i : I: NNV )g . : 2 \\ Al ee | \ Hy E A\ alNl tyH n \ i @ NWA mT ys \BAW \\\\ i \ \ YAH R \ Hi LONG QA SN \ AM <p \ \\Y ml wil SQW SS \ YY w8ae | IBae irsGs RtO TjT&AT orreyt NteaN haoZp o [EDtL tNpzA POL,I = ¥ as : = Ku 5. cs a (fa yipé 90 UryI) T] 4 SS PAolstiol lipo The Drawing Office - St.Albons

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