. Europe and other continents . ng the fall of theEmpire. The excavation of this famous spot has not yet beencompleted, whole buildings, as well as smaller objects, havingbeen buried in that locality. Other Italian Cities. — With the exception of Rome andNaples the large cities of the Italian peninsula are inthe northern part. The principal city south of Naples isPalermo, the capital of Sicily, and about the size ofDetroit. It is situated in the midst of extensive fruitgroves. What fruits would you expect to find there ? Fig. view of a part of Venice. 322 EUROPE The first large city nort
. Europe and other continents . ng the fall of theEmpire. The excavation of this famous spot has not yet beencompleted, whole buildings, as well as smaller objects, havingbeen buried in that locality. Other Italian Cities. — With the exception of Rome andNaples the large cities of the Italian peninsula are inthe northern part. The principal city south of Naples isPalermo, the capital of Sicily, and about the size ofDetroit. It is situated in the midst of extensive fruitgroves. What fruits would you expect to find there ? Fig. view of a part of Venice. 322 EUROPE The first large city north of Rome is Florence, onthe western base of the Appennines at a junction of roads across the moun-tains. Strawplaiting, mosaicwork, and silkmanufacturingare importantFlorentine in-dustries ; andthe city is fa-mous for its artgalleries. Milan, thethird Italiancity in size,owes its impor-tance largely toits location atthe crossing ofroads runningeast and west inthe Po Valley,and north andsouth over theAlps. Turinhas flourished. The Bridge of Sighs in Venice, across which prison-ers were led to hear their sentence before beingthrown into a dungeon. for a similar reason. From very early times these citieshave been important trade centres because of their locationat the crossing of trade routes in a fertile,densely popu-lated valley. The railways across the Alps (p. 306) havegreatly increased their importance. ITALY 323 Milan possesses a magnificent cathedral built of whitemarble and adorned with one hundred and twenty-two spiresand over four thousand statues. On the wall of an old monas-tery in Milan is Da Vincis famous painting, The Last Supper,photographs of which are often seen in our homes. The city isthe centre of the silk trade, and manufactures much cutlery. Genoa, although separated from the Po Valley by thelow Appennines, is the natural port of Milan and it is a port of outlet for so fertile a region, andis now connected with central Europe by railway (p. 30
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