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Title: Italy: handbook for travellers. First Part (Northern Italy)
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Coblenz : K. Baedeker
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trutta, or trout, 1—J.i/2 lb., the lagone, andthe sardene are excellent fish. The banks, although inferior in attraction to those of the Lakeof Como, present a great variety of beautiful landscapes, enhancedby the imposing expanse of the water. Those of the S. half areflat and well cultivated, but they become bolder between Capo S.Vigilio and a point to the N. of Salo, where the lake contracts. Thevegetation is luxuriant, especially on the more sheltered W. bank.Even the sensitive lemon arrives at maturity here (nowhere elsein N. Italy, except on the Riviera di Ponente, see p. 95), but thetrees require to be carefully covered in winter. This is accom-plished with the aid of numerous white pillars of brick, 8—-20 ft. inheight, erected at regular intervals, and united by transverse beamsat the top. The fruit is more bitter and aromatic than that ofSicily, suffers less from carriage, and keeps longer. Price in plen-tiful seasons 3—4 fr. per hundred, but frequently as high as 10 fr.
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RIVA. 28. Route. 159 Desenzano (Mayers Hotel; Posta Vecchia, pension 6J/2 fr.;Vittoria; Aquila), a thriving little town with 4000 inhab., at theS.W. angle of the lake, is a station on the railway from Milanto Verona (R. 27). Omnibus from the steamboat to the train 50 c,luggage 25 c. To the E., not quite half-way to Peschiera (p. 161), is thenarrow promontory of Sermione (iSirmio, penisularum insularum-que ocellus), projecting 3 M. into the lake, which here attains itsgreatest breadth. The poet Catullus once resided and composed hispoems in a villa on this peninsula. The still existing rains con-sist of two vaults, remains of a bath, etc. A castle was also erect-ed here by the Scaligers, who for upwards of a century (1262—1389) were princes of Verona. The Steamboat steers near the W. bank, but does not touch atthe small villages of Moniga and Manerba. Opposite to the promon-tory of 8. Vigilio (p. 161) it next passes the small Isola di S. Bia-gio and the beautiful crescent-shaped isla

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