. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . Rome. known as the Porta Maggiore and the Porta San Lorenzo. Immediatelywithin the wall a picturesque ruin, overgrown with ivy. is seen on the left:it is the temple of Minerva Medica. As the train enters the station, a i)artof the ancient wall of Ser\ius TuUius appears, the excavations for the stationhaving unhappily necessitated the destruction of a large part of this inte-resting vestige of antiquity. The present walls of the city extend for acircuit of about twelve miles. On th
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . Rome. known as the Porta Maggiore and the Porta San Lorenzo. Immediatelywithin the wall a picturesque ruin, overgrown with ivy. is seen on the left:it is the temple of Minerva Medica. As the train enters the station, a i)artof the ancient wall of Ser\ius TuUius appears, the excavations for the stationhaving unhappily necessitated the destruction of a large part of this inte-resting vestige of antiquity. The present walls of the city extend for acircuit of about twelve miles. On the outside, owing to the accumulationof rubbish, they are only fifteen or twenty feet high, but inside they are insome places fifty feet high. They retain many of their ancient towers andbastions. There are twenty-four Supposing the traveller U) arrive by railway,he will doubtless proceed along the Via Habuinoto what is known as the Strangers Quarter,near the Porta del Popolo, at the north of thecity. The Piazza del Popolo is the most highlyornamented square in the city. It is decorated with semicircular terraces,statues, (Jcc, by Valadier. A granite Egyjitian obelisk, brought in 15S9from the Circus Maximus, .stands in the centre. On the cast are thePincian Gardens, terraced and planted, and now a fashionable drive. Thechurch of Santa Maria del Popolo is close to the gate, on the site where, itis said, Nero was buried. Three principal streets of Rome terminate in the Pia//a del to the left leads to the railway station. Thnt in the centre, the Corso,passes through the middle of the city to the Fonnn and Capitol. That tothe right bears away towards the Tiber and the west. The Corso follows the direction of the ancient Via Up the 369 *^ rim- Mp Rome. first street on the left, J
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