Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : comprising Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona the Italian lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, the Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes . The Piedmontesegovernment-map is useless in this dis-trict.] Near St. Marcel are copper-mines,and the remarkable Fontaine Bleue,impregnated with copper. On the approach to Aosta theChateau Quart is seen high on themountain side; a path leads to it fromnear Villefranche, and down on theother side to Aosta, so that a vi
Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : comprising Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona the Italian lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, the Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes . The Piedmontesegovernment-map is useless in this dis-trict.] Near St. Marcel are copper-mines,and the remarkable Fontaine Bleue,impregnated with copper. On the approach to Aosta theChateau Quart is seen high on themountain side; a path leads to it fromnear Villefranche, and down on theother side to Aosta, so that a visitrequires no retracing of steps, andbeautiful scenes are presented on theascent and at the chateau, which isnow a hospital. Little more than aleague further up the valley is Aosta (Inns: H. du Mont Blanc,kept by J. Tairraz, of Chamonix ;the best in Val dAosta, but not first-rate ; Couronne (Poste); Ecu duValais, well spoken of), a city of 7700Inhab.; of small importance in trade,wealth, or population, but attractiveto a stranger, as a genuine Italiantown, in a most striking situation,—adeep rich valley, surrounded by lofty andsnow-capped mountains, which peerdown into its squares and streets. Itstands at the foot of the Great , on the junction of the Buttier.
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