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Identifier: italiancastlesco00batcrich (find matches)
Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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mass seems actually a part of the great rocky eminencefrom which it rises, and commands not only the valleyof Verres, but that of the valley to one side, which stillbears its name. In striking contrast to these vast-nesses, across the valley stands the chateau of Issogne,also built by the lords of Challant, but marking dis-tinctively another epoch in the Middle Ages. Thecastle of Verres seems to speak of hard, tempestuoustimes, where the rule of the strong was supreme; butthe castle of Issogne seems to have been built inbrighter, less agitated times, when it was possible morefreely to enjoy the surrounding beauties of Nature,and to give more thought to the art and decoration,rather than to the strength, of ones abiding-place. Two more castelli gave us beautiful pictures to lookupon at Arnaz, and we were swiftly carried on pastthe ever-new and interesting scenes of this marvel-lous valley. At last we reached the castle of Bard,which I have been so anxious to see. It is an immense (6) w
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AND COUNTRY SEATS structure, for a fort has been built on the ruins ofthe tenth century castle. On the first of June, 1800,Napoleon Bonaparte surrounded and captured thestronghold, having made the unequalled march of hisartillery over the Mont Albard in the night, by thevery route dominated by the castle. We stopped now and then to gather some of themany unusual flowers that are found all about here,and help to complete the illusion of this fairyland.We were soon at Donnaz, however, where a largesmoky steel manufactory quite brought us back toearth and the practical but unattractive observanceof daily needs. Smoking chimneys and large, finesteel works were not at all in keeping with the pictur-esque castles and wonderful snow peaks, but I wasglad to see them, nevertheless, for it showed that theglorious valley and its people are of to-day, as wellas of yesterday and of thousands of years ago, whenthe Romans built the arch of Donnaz as markingthe entrance to the valley. But the valley

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