Byways in southern Tuscany . BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY. Pereta. The Gateway thin tower against the sky, tall, windowless, of the kindthat used to be manned by a few archers, shooting throughthe arrow slits at the top. Thus Pereta stands nestling inolive trees and looking out upon many another hill with aglimpse of the RiverCastrionebelow. There are remainsofits old wall and the usual stone-flagged streets full of sup-porting arches, aerial bridges, loggias, outside staircases,and stone benches. Flowers bloom in windows and ironrings are driven into the walls to hold flower pots, in thepretty
Byways in southern Tuscany . BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY. Pereta. The Gateway thin tower against the sky, tall, windowless, of the kindthat used to be manned by a few archers, shooting throughthe arrow slits at the top. Thus Pereta stands nestling inolive trees and looking out upon many another hill with aglimpse of the RiverCastrionebelow. There are remainsofits old wall and the usual stone-flagged streets full of sup-porting arches, aerial bridges, loggias, outside staircases,and stone benches. Flowers bloom in windows and ironrings are driven into the walls to hold flower pots, in thepretty Tuscan fashion. The place was never of great im-portance and has no crumbling palaces to show, but it isclean and self-respecting and has a little church of grace-ful proportions with arched doorway and rose window,built of stone whose tone is of gold and bronze marked withwide veinings of deep red, quite beautiful and striking. 71 BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY Against the front of it are worn stone seats from whichcriminals were judged long ago. After co
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