. Italy: a handbook for travellers. First Part (Nothern Italy). ed, R. 3, D. 4 fr.;Due Colombe, both well spoken of) is a busy town with 4300 in-hab., at the angle of the lake, with a railway-station (p. 186).Omn. from pier to train 50 c, luggage 25 c. About 3!/2 M. to the E., not quite halfway to Peschiera (p. 194),is the narrow promontory of Sermione, projecting l^j^ M. into thelake, which here attains its greatest breadth. A pleasant excursion may be taken thither by boat or by carriage(6 fr.; 3 hrs. there and back). The fishing-village (poor locanda; Romaninscriptions and Lombardic or
. Italy: a handbook for travellers. First Part (Nothern Italy). ed, R. 3, D. 4 fr.;Due Colombe, both well spoken of) is a busy town with 4300 in-hab., at the angle of the lake, with a railway-station (p. 186).Omn. from pier to train 50 c, luggage 25 c. About 3!/2 M. to the E., not quite halfway to Peschiera (p. 194),is the narrow promontory of Sermione, projecting l^j^ M. into thelake, which here attains its greatest breadth. A pleasant excursion may be taken thither by boat or by carriage(6 fr.; 3 hrs. there and back). The fishing-village (poor locanda; Romaninscriptions and Lombardic ornaments in the doorway) adjoins the hand-some ruin of a castle of the Scaligers (p. 203). We then cross the olive-clad height, past the little church of S. Pietro, to (1 M.) the extremityof the peninsula, where we obtain a charming view. On the hill areremains of baths, and on the promontory are relics of a building extend-ing into the lake, said to have been the country-house of Catullus, whowrote his poems here (peninsularuin, Sirmio, insularumque ocellu1).. to W W COW CJ 5 «?&-&! jijI* to i a en — C &>S> tdpcd U p |p- d p p CO tJ i-* CJ to ir-3 CO ^— w CJ rfr ^ ^* &J C S B- o s o 5Q N
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