Italy: a handbook for travellersFirst Part (Nothern Italy) . Lura, with 5100 inhab., known in Italy for itsexcellent gingerbread (amaretti). — A quadruple avenue of planetrees leads W. from the station to the Santuario della BeataVbrgine, a celebrated pilgrimage-church, built at different timesbetween the end of the 15th and the end of the 17th cent., chiefly ina pompous baroque style. It contains a series of admirable *Frescoes. The paintings in the interior of the dome represent a concert ofangels, and are by Gaudenzio Ferrari. Round the drum are several woodenstatues by Andrea Fusina. The f
Italy: a handbook for travellersFirst Part (Nothern Italy) . Lura, with 5100 inhab., known in Italy for itsexcellent gingerbread (amaretti). — A quadruple avenue of planetrees leads W. from the station to the Santuario della BeataVbrgine, a celebrated pilgrimage-church, built at different timesbetween the end of the 15th and the end of the 17th cent., chiefly ina pompous baroque style. It contains a series of admirable *Frescoes. The paintings in the interior of the dome represent a concert ofangels, and are by Gaudenzio Ferrari. Round the drum are several woodenstatues by Andrea Fusina. The frescoes immediately below the drum areby Lanini, those in the next section by Cesare da Sesto and (SS. Rochus and Sebastian). The remaining frescoes are all byLuini, who, as the story goes, sought an asylum in the sanctuary of Sa-ronno after killing a man in self-defence, and had to work at the biddingof the monks. In the passage leading to the choir are depicted the Mar-riage of the Virgin and Christ among the doctors; in the choir itself,. Wuj^va|)lv. AJistali von Warner* T^etirs. r,t*ii>/.ip Ferrovio p Tramways nei Dintorm di Milaiio farovu Tra/nnmjs JA7W4 jPnnuHiii aw Ford MUfaio a Upon-, aOartlii ; n Scala di I a 500,000 5 1 3 •„? i O 3 10 jo Hum. _jJAtgano
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