In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . San Niccolo, one of the few-noble gate towers of an-cient days. 202 Outside the Walls tramping the Thuringian hills? Anyway, they werestrongly reminiscent of earlier joys, and promisednew thrills like old ones, which is always a promiseof much seduction. From the piazza in front of the little church ofSettignano a pair of iron gates open to the northon a broad path that drops down into the garden-like narrow valleyof a very smallstream. Crossingthis and skirting thelittle cemetery youbegin to push upthe hill toward Vin-cigliata,
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . San Niccolo, one of the few-noble gate towers of an-cient days. 202 Outside the Walls tramping the Thuringian hills? Anyway, they werestrongly reminiscent of earlier joys, and promisednew thrills like old ones, which is always a promiseof much seduction. From the piazza in front of the little church ofSettignano a pair of iron gates open to the northon a broad path that drops down into the garden-like narrow valleyof a very smallstream. Crossingthis and skirting thelittle cemetery youbegin to push upthe hill toward Vin-cigliata, through astraggling planta-tion of young cy-presses. What sadharm was workedto all the hills aboutFlorence by thereckless cutting ofthe trees in pasttimes! Modern for-estry all over Eu-. \\)^^VYJi,f!ipi.•^^-^fe^vii 1 rope is endeavoringto repair these old Up the hill toward Vincigliata. hurts, but it is a slow process, the reforestation of denuded hill-sides, long worked and worn by rain and wind. The ounce of prevention would have been so much better. Feudal Castles and Fiesole 203 Higher up the forest is closer and older, and theway more beautiful. The road curves gently aroundthe hill-slope past a farm-house or two, and past alittle chapel set under a group of dark old cypresses,and then swings sharply around the head of aravine, with its sides thickly set with olives andvines, and arrives under the great retaining wallsof Vincigliata; good tramping and good seeing allthe way. Vincigliata, solid, splendid as it is, is a disappoint-ment. It is too much a restoration; it is a Cha-teau de still remainscattered parts ofits old self, and itsinterior is nobly re-done, presumablymost faithfully, andfilled with interest-ing things. Butthere is little of
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