Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . \. THE CASTLE OF TRENT. IN THE TRENTINO. HE Adige is one of the rivers that are consecrated by the legends and the love ofthe people, around whose shores the great militant figures of history groupthemselves, in whose bed lies a treasure of golden memories. The Adigeseems to have impressed somewhat of its own character upon the country ittraverses; even as the river foams down from the mountains in wild impetuous windings,so is the land cleft into bold ravines in its upper portions ; and when the stream begins toflow with a broader, calmer current, the valle
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . \. THE CASTLE OF TRENT. IN THE TRENTINO. HE Adige is one of the rivers that are consecrated by the legends and the love ofthe people, around whose shores the great militant figures of history groupthemselves, in whose bed lies a treasure of golden memories. The Adigeseems to have impressed somewhat of its own character upon the country ittraverses; even as the river foams down from the mountains in wild impetuous windings,so is the land cleft into bold ravines in its upper portions ; and when the stream begins toflow with a broader, calmer current, the valley spreads itself out into wide plains ladenwith wine and oil, with corn and silk. And all this bounty, these rich gifts, are in amanner expressed by the habitual phrase used by the people in speaking of the inhabitants of these parts talk of the Padre Adige, just as the Germans speak of Father Rhine. The most interesting district in the course of the Adige is undoubtedly the so-calledTrentino; for if at Botzen the river is s
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