The hand-book for travellers in Italy, from London to Naples . Santa Croce, in walls of the city also are seen, and numerousobjects of antiquarian interest beyond them, such asthe Tomb of Cecilia Metella, the Temple of Bacchus,and the Vale of Egeria; the immensely-lengthenedaqueducts, which stretch their long lines across thesolitary Campagna, and seem to connect the city withthe beautiful ranges of the Alban hills, which areseen, from Palestrina to Albano, including the sites ofSubiaco, Frascati, Tivoli, Grotto Ferrata, the Campof Hannibal, and the Monte Cavo, and Castel-Gondo
The hand-book for travellers in Italy, from London to Naples . Santa Croce, in walls of the city also are seen, and numerousobjects of antiquarian interest beyond them, such asthe Tomb of Cecilia Metella, the Temple of Bacchus,and the Vale of Egeria; the immensely-lengthenedaqueducts, which stretch their long lines across thesolitary Campagna, and seem to connect the city withthe beautiful ranges of the Alban hills, which areseen, from Palestrina to Albano, including the sites ofSubiaco, Frascati, Tivoli, Grotto Ferrata, the Campof Hannibal, and the Monte Cavo, and Castel-Gondolfo; a list of objects, ranging themselveswithin an angle of 100 degrees, with which thehistory of twenty centuries is associated, and whichthrows back the mind upon events, within thatperiod, which had their origin in the most debasedor the noblest — the most heartless or the mosttender — the most venial or the most patriotic im-pulses that ever prompted the mind or the powerof man to evil or to good. Of the views of Rome there are many picturesque I 1^. ROME. 159 points^, whence the old or the modern city may beseen to advantage. From the Tower of the Capitolit is panoramic ; the view from the Monte Mario in-cludes the windings of the Tiber; that from theQuirinal Hill is fine near the Popes Palace, wherethe colossal statues of Castor and Pollux form agrand foreground to that part of the modern citywhich includes St. Peters and the Vatican, and thedistant Monte Mario. Many of the villas near the city are interesting tovisit, either for their situation, or the works of artwhich they contain. That of the Borghese possessesa celebrated gallery of sculpture; and its grounds,which have a circuit of nearly three miles, exhibitone of the finest examples, in the immediate neigh-bourhood of Rome, of what is called, in Italy, Englishgardening! Within a short distance of the groundsof the Villa Borghese there is a spot sacred to art,—towhich every lover of painting should make a pi
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