. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . even insummer the air is cool. There are plenty of delight-ful walks—to Piora, for example, up the Val Canaria,and to Bedretto. After leaving Airolo the road descends rapidly fora few hundred feet and then more slowly for four orfive kilometres to Piotta. Here the first signs ofthe Italian spirit appear in the wood carving of someof the houses. It is with these houses that I alwaysconsider myself as in Italy again. Then come Roncoon the mountain side to the left, and Quinto; all the H ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. way the pastures are
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . even insummer the air is cool. There are plenty of delight-ful walks—to Piora, for example, up the Val Canaria,and to Bedretto. After leaving Airolo the road descends rapidly fora few hundred feet and then more slowly for four orfive kilometres to Piotta. Here the first signs ofthe Italian spirit appear in the wood carving of someof the houses. It is with these houses that I alwaysconsider myself as in Italy again. Then come Roncoon the mountain side to the left, and Quinto; all the H ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. way the pastures are thickly covered with cowslips,even finer than those that grow on Salisbury few kilometres farther on and sight is caught of abeautiful green hill with a few natural terraces upon itand a flat top—rising from amid pastures, and backedby higher hills as green as itself. On the top of thishill there stands a white church with an elegant Lorn-bard campanile—the campanile left unwhitewashed. r! ft 1 ^K ;S fy (3 - )- .^■J^flK^M* W^^^^^^^-^-^^ \t^. PRATO FROM NEAR DAZIO. The whole forms a lovely little bit of landscape suchas some old Venetian painter might have chosen asa background for a Madonna. This place is called Prato. After it is passed theroad enters at once upon the Monte Piottino gorge,which is better than the Devils Bridge, but not so muchto my taste as the auriculas and rhododendrons which FA I DO. 15 grow upon the rocks that flank it. The peep, however,at the hamlet of Vigera, caught through the openingof the gorge, is very nice. Soon after crossing thesecond of the Monte Piottino bridges the first chest-nuts are reached, or rather were so till a year ago,when they were all cut down to make room for someconstruction in connection with the railway. A coupleof kilometres farther on and mulberries and occa-sional fig-trees begin to appear. On this we find our-selves at Faido, the first place upon the Italian sidewhich can be called a town, but which a
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