. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . B^kMrnm^^mMmm S. MICHELE FROM NEAR S. MICHELE. the distance. On the right-hand side of the valley andabout half way between Susa and Turin the eye isstruck by an abruptly-descending mountain with a largebuilding like a castle upon the top of it, and the nearerit is approached the more imposing does it prove to 92 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. be. Presently the mountain is seen more edgeways,and the shape changes. In half-an-hour or so from thispoint, S. Ambrogio is reached, once a thriving town,where carriages used to brea
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . B^kMrnm^^mMmm S. MICHELE FROM NEAR S. MICHELE. the distance. On the right-hand side of the valley andabout half way between Susa and Turin the eye isstruck by an abruptly-descending mountain with a largebuilding like a castle upon the top of it, and the nearerit is approached the more imposing does it prove to 92 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. be. Presently the mountain is seen more edgeways,and the shape changes. In half-an-hour or so from thispoint, S. Ambrogio is reached, once a thriving town,where carriages used to break the journey betweenTurin and Susa, but left stranded since the openingof the railway. Here we are at the very foot of theMonte Pirchiriano, for so the mountain is called, andcan see the front of the buildine—which is none otherthan the famous sanctuary of S. Michele, commonlycalled della chiusa, from the wall built here by Desi-derius, king of the Lombards, to protect his kingdomfrom Charlemagne. The history of the sanctuary is briefly as follows :—At the close of the tenth century, when OthoIII. was Em
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