Bradshaw's notes for travellers in Tyrol and Vorarlberg . he pretty villageof Kortsch is passed. The road is borderedby beautiful chestnuts. High on the rocksabove is the Castle of Schlandersberg. Scblanders (The Post is very highly re-commended, and is probably the best sleepingplace on this road) lies under the precipitousmountains on the left of the valley. The vegeta-tion now becomes more luxuriant, and vinesare seen upon every available ledge of are not cultivated as on the Rhine,but trained over wooden frames in the manneralmost universal on the south side of the.\lps. Three mi
Bradshaw's notes for travellers in Tyrol and Vorarlberg . he pretty villageof Kortsch is passed. The road is borderedby beautiful chestnuts. High on the rocksabove is the Castle of Schlandersberg. Scblanders (The Post is very highly re-commended, and is probably the best sleepingplace on this road) lies under the precipitousmountains on the left of the valley. The vegeta-tion now becomes more luxuriant, and vinesare seen upon every available ledge of are not cultivated as on the Rhine,but trained over wooden frames in the manneralmost universal on the south side of the.\lps. Three miles beyond Schlanders isthe Castle of Goldrain, with red cappedconical towers. A little further on theValley of ]\Iartell, with the Castle Montani onan eminence in its gorge, opens to the is a path up this valley by which Suldenand its glaciers may be visited. The nextpost station is Latsch, 18^ miles from Meran,a neat village with a large painted churchysituated in the centre of the valley. BelowLatsch the valley goes down another step, and. S uj <5 ^\^li!fi7Tri.^i puv lii/f-S V IX THE TYROL AND VORARLUERG. 23 the descent to Castelbell is very steep. Theroad crosses the Adige, and in 3 miles reachesCastelbell, where there are the ruins of a castleconsuniedby fire in notsince small portion is still habitable. The owner ofit is Graf Hendlevon Castelbell. Beyond it, atth?, lower end of the village, is a good little innon the right of the road, where the stellwagenfrom Meran to Mais stops for passengers todine. The next village is Staben, where thestreet is partly covered in by vines trainedacross it. The mountains on the right at thispoint are fearfully barren and desolate-looking,and it is quite a relief nheu the savage gorgeof the Schnalser-thal breaks the dreary mo-notony of their outline. The Schnalser-thalcannot be ascended by this ravine, but isreached by a path from Staben over the shoul-der of the mountain, passing close to the Castleof
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