. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . PRATO CHURCH PORCH, NO. II. pass which will avoid the gorge ; and the other, by Dazio good. Dazio and the Monte Piottino ^orgfe. Both are CHAPTER IV. R OS S UR A, CALONI CO. Another day I went up to Rossura, a village thatcan be seen from the windows of the Hotel del Angelo, and which stands about. ROSSURA CHURCH. 3500 feet above the sea,or a little more than 1100feet above Faido. Thepath to it passes alongsome meadows, fromwhich the church of Cal-onico can be seen onthe top of its rocks somefew miles off. By andby a torrent i
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . PRATO CHURCH PORCH, NO. II. pass which will avoid the gorge ; and the other, by Dazio good. Dazio and the Monte Piottino ^orgfe. Both are CHAPTER IV. R OS S UR A, CALONI CO. Another day I went up to Rossura, a village thatcan be seen from the windows of the Hotel del Angelo, and which stands about. ROSSURA CHURCH. 3500 feet above the sea,or a little more than 1100feet above Faido. Thepath to it passes alongsome meadows, fromwhich the church of Cal-onico can be seen onthe top of its rocks somefew miles off. By andby a torrent is reached,and the ascent beginsin earnest. When thelevel of Rossura has been nearly attained, the path turns off into meadows tothe right, and continues—occasionally under magni-ficent chestnuts—till one comes to Rossura. ROSSURA. 43 The church has been a good deal restored duringthe last few years, and an interesting old chapel—withan altar in it—at which mass was said during a timeof plague, while the people stood some way off in ameadow, has just been entirely renovated ; but as withsome English churches, the more closely a piece ofold work is copied the more palpably does themodern spirit show through it, so here the oppositeoccurs, for the old worldliness of the place has notbeen impaired by much renovation, though the inten-tion has been to ma
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