. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . times. If the traveller likes to continue the road pastthe church for three quarters of a mile or so, he willget a fine view of the castle, and if he goes up to thelittle chapel of S. Quirico on the top of the hill onhis right hand, he will look down upon it and uponArona. We will suppose, however, that he goes straight AN G ERA AND A RON A 339 for the castle itself; every moment as he approachesit, it will seem finer and finer ; presently he will turninto a vineyard on his left, and at once begin toclimb. Passing under the ol
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . times. If the traveller likes to continue the road pastthe church for three quarters of a mile or so, he willget a fine view of the castle, and if he goes up to thelittle chapel of S. Quirico on the top of the hill onhis right hand, he will look down upon it and uponArona. We will suppose, however, that he goes straight AN G ERA AND A RON A 339 for the castle itself; every moment as he approachesit, it will seem finer and finer ; presently he will turninto a vineyard on his left, and at once begin toclimb. Passing under the old gateway—with its portcullisstill ready to be dropped, if need be, and with the iron. TERRACE AT CASTLE OF ANGERA, NO. II. plates that sheathe it pierced with bullets—as at , the visitor enters at once upon a terrace fromwhich the two foreiroinor illustrations were know nothing like this terrace. On a summersafternoon and evening it is fully shaded, the sun beingbehind the castle. The lake and town below are still 340 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. in sunlight. This, I think, is about the best time tosee the castle—say from six to eight on a July even-ing, or at any hour on a gray day. Count Borromeo, to whom the castle belongs,allows it to be shown, and visitors are is very little furniture inside the rooms, and
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