Italy : handbook for travellers . nce is sorely tried by the impor-tunities of a host of beggars and guides. Two carriage - roads lead from Terni to the waterfalls. TlieNew Road (4/.2 M.), following the right bank of the Nora, andflanked with poplars, leaves the town near the Porta Spolctina,and crosses the plain in a straight direction. On the right risesthe large new government manufactory of weapons, the machineryof which is to be driven by the water of the Nera. We now ap- to Orte. TERNI. 10. Route. 79 proach the stream , the valley of which contracts. On each sidetower lofty rocks, to whi
Italy : handbook for travellers . nce is sorely tried by the impor-tunities of a host of beggars and guides. Two carriage - roads lead from Terni to the waterfalls. TlieNew Road (4/.2 M.), following the right bank of the Nora, andflanked with poplars, leaves the town near the Porta Spolctina,and crosses the plain in a straight direction. On the right risesthe large new government manufactory of weapons, the machineryof which is to be driven by the water of the Nera. We now ap- to Orte. TERNI. 10. Route. 79 proach the stream , the valley of which contracts. On each sidetower lofty rocks, to which the luxuriant vegetation of the slopesforms a beautiful contrast. — The Old Road is reached from thepiazza at Terni by passing the Albergo Europa and descending theStrada Garibaldi. We at first follow the Rieti and Aquila road (^seeBaedekers S. Italy), which crosses the Nera just outside the gate,traversing gardens and olive-plantations; after 2 M. (near a smallchapel on the right), a broad road to the left descends into the. valley of the Nera, while the high-road continues to ascend gradu-ally to the right. The former descends in windings past the villageof Pnpigno, picturesquely situated on an Isolated rock, (3/^ M.)crosses the Nera, and on the right bank, near the villa of CountCastelli-Graziaiii, reaches the new road mentioned above ( the falls). The relebrated falls of the Velino (which here empties itself intothe Nera), called the =*=*Cascate delle Marmore, are about 650 height, and have few rivals in Europe in point of beauty and vo-lume of water. The rivulet is precipitated from the height in threeleaps of about 65, 330, and 190 ft. respectively, the water fallingperpendicularly at some places, and at others dashing furiously overrocks. The spray of the falls is seen from a considerable distance. The Velino is so strongly impregnated with lime that its deposit con-tinually raises its bed; and the plain of Rieti (1397 ft.) thereforefrequently exp
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