Italy: handbook for travellers First Part, Northern Italy and Corsica . Vi Mm, is i^fe^fe fc*Jfe»T< t^ ??? /??? s * Darns sta<h,E<TS\agiver. of Nice. 16. Route. 105 The Villa Clary (accessible), below Cimies, on the road toSt. Andre (see below), possesses the finest orange and lemon-trees at Nice and a number of rare plants. A good ascends on the r. bank of the Paglione tothe (40 min.) monastery of St. Pons, founded in 775 on thespot where St. Pontius, a Roman senator, suffered martyrdomin 261. It was destroyed by the Saracens in 890, and the pre-sent edifice erected in 999
Italy: handbook for travellers First Part, Northern Italy and Corsica . Vi Mm, is i^fe^fe fc*Jfe»T< t^ ??? /??? s * Darns sta<h,E<TS\agiver. of Nice. 16. Route. 105 The Villa Clary (accessible), below Cimies, on the road toSt. Andre (see below), possesses the finest orange and lemon-trees at Nice and a number of rare plants. A good ascends on the r. bank of the Paglione tothe (40 min.) monastery of St. Pons, founded in 775 on thespot where St. Pontius, a Roman senator, suffered martyrdomin 261. It was destroyed by the Saracens in 890, and the pre-sent edifice erected in 999. Here in 1388 the treaty was con-cluded by which the County of Nice was annexed to the Duchyof Savoy. The chateau of St. Andre (Restaurant, closed insummer) which is reached in 4/2 hr. more, erected in the 17thcent., is now unoccupied. It stands on an eminence, at thebase of which (}/t hr. walk) is the grotto les Cluses de St. Andre,or rather a natural bridge over a brook, crossed by the avenue of cypresses leads from the chateau to the grotto(15 min.). The traveller may extend his excursion still farther in thisdirection. Beyond the
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