. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . TERRACE AT CASTLE OF ANGERA, NO. II. plates that sheathe it pierced with bullets—as at , the visitor enters at once upon a terrace fromwhich the two foreiroinor illustrations were know nothing like this terrace. On a summersafternoon and evening it is fully shaded, the sun beingbehind the castle. The lake and town below are still 340 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. in sunlight. This, I think, is about the best time tosee the castle—say from six to eight on a July even-ing, or at any hour on a gray day. Count Borromeo, t
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . TERRACE AT CASTLE OF ANGERA, NO. II. plates that sheathe it pierced with bullets—as at , the visitor enters at once upon a terrace fromwhich the two foreiroinor illustrations were know nothing like this terrace. On a summersafternoon and evening it is fully shaded, the sun beingbehind the castle. The lake and town below are still 340 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. in sunlight. This, I think, is about the best time tosee the castle—say from six to eight on a July even-ing, or at any hour on a gray day. Count Borromeo, to whom the castle belongs,allows it to be shown, and visitors are is very little furniture inside the rooms, and. ROOM IN WHICH S. CARLO BORROMEO WAS BORN. the little there is is decaying; the walls are coveredwith pictures, mostly copies, and none of them of anygreat merit, but the rooms themselves are is a sketch of the one in which San CarloBorromeo was born, but the one on the floor be-neath is better still. The whole of this part was built ANGERA AND ARONA. 341 about the year 1350, and inside, where the weatherhas not reached, the stones are as sharp as if they hadbeen cut yesterday. It was in the great Sala of thiscastle that the rising against the Austrians in 1848 wasplanned ; then there is the Sala di Giustzzia, a fineroom, with the remains of frescoes ; the roof and thetower should also certainly be visited. All is solidand real, yet it is like an Italian opera in actual , there is the kitchen, where the wheel stillremains in which a turnspit dog used to be put toturn it and roast the meat ; but this room is notshown to strangers. The inner court of the castle is
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