. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . there makes somuch impression upon one in the church on the MontePirchiriano ; the architecture is late, and barocco, not tosay rococo, reigns everywhere ; nevertheless the effectof the church is good. The visitor should get thesacristan to show him a very fine pagliotto or altarcloth of raised embroidery, worked in the thirteenthcentury. He will also do well to walk some littledistance behind the town on the way to S. Maria delfiori (St. Mary of the flowers) and look down upon thetown and Lombardy. I do not think he need gomu
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . there makes somuch impression upon one in the church on the MontePirchiriano ; the architecture is late, and barocco, not tosay rococo, reigns everywhere ; nevertheless the effectof the church is good. The visitor should get thesacristan to show him a very fine pagliotto or altarcloth of raised embroidery, worked in the thirteenthcentury. He will also do well to walk some littledistance behind the town on the way to S. Maria delfiori (St. Mary of the flowers) and look down upon thetown and Lombardy. I do not think he need gomuch higher than this, unless he has a fancy forclimbing. We happened by good luck to be at the SacroMonte during one of the great feste of the year, andsaw I am afraid to say how many thousands of pilgrimsgo up and down. They were admirably behaved,and not one of them tipsy. There was an old English SACRO MONTE, VARESE. 333 gentleman at the Hotel Riposo who told us thatthere had been another such festa not many weekspreviously, and that he had seen one drunken man. SACRO MONTE FROM ABOVE. there—an Englishman—who kept abusing all he sawand crying out, Manchesters the place forme. CHAPTER XXIV. ANGEEA AND ARONA. From the Hotel Riposo we drove to Angera, on theLago Maggiore. There are many interesting thingsto see on the way. Close to Velate, for example,there is the magnificent bit of ruin which is so strikinga feature as seen from the Sacro Monte. A littlefurther on, at Luinate, there is a fine old Lombardcampanile and some conventual buildings which areworth sparing five minutes or so to see. The viewshereabouts over the lake of Varese and towardsMonte Rosa are exceedingly fine. The driver shouldbe told to go a mile or so out of his direct route inorder to pass Oltrona, near Voltrone. Here therewas a monastery which must once have been an im-portant one. Little of old work remains, except a verybeautiful cloister of the thirteenth or fourteenth cen-tury, which should not be
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