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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Rome. The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Firf, Have dealt upon the Seven-hilled City's piide.' Bthon. View of Rome from the Capitol?Changes in the site of the City?Origin of Rome?Ancient Boundaries and Divisions?Early Antiquities?Causes of the Destruction of the ancient City?State of Rome in the middle Ages? Rise of the modern City?Progress of Dilapidation? Present Aspect of the Ruius?Climate and characteristic features of Rome. The Piazza del Popolo, being the first part of Rome actually seen by most travellers, who generally arrive by the Florence road, attracts more attention than it would otherwise command. In the centre of an irregular, open area, rises, between two fountains, an Egyptian obelisk of granite, 82 feet in height, the only object that recalls antiquity. Three streets branch off from the Piazza. The middle one, which runs in the same direction as the Via Lata, is the Corso, the high street of modern Rome, but too narrow to produce any effect. On each side of its entrance, stand the twin churches of Sta. Maria di Monte Santo and Sta. Maria dci Miracoli, built in 1662; about which time the Piazza was cleared of many of its former incum- brances, in honour of the entrance of Christina, Queen of Sweden. The street on the right, the llipctta, leads to the banks of the Tiber; that on the left, to the Piazza di Spagnn, the quarter of the hotels, below the Pincian hill. This entrance to the city is altogether not unworthy of a great capital; yet, having nothing in it peculiarly characteristic of Rome, it produces a vague feeling of disappointment. Modern Rome, indeed, is not so different from other towns, as those who see it for the first time, somewhat unreasonably anticipate; and if, not having secured a lascia-passare, the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217227131 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217227139 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $20.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 214 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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