Identifier: 10866333.5342.emory.edu
Title: Italy: a handbook for travellers. First Part (Nothern Italy)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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and the Apostles, etc., in the right apse. Below is anancient Crypt with a font. — The ruins of an octagonal Baptistery of1008 adjoin the cathedral. — The top of the Campanile commands an ad-mirable view of the lagoons and the sea. — S. Fosca, built on a Byzant-ine model and dating in its present form from the 12th cent., is externallyoctagonal (interior intended for a dome, but at present covered with a flatroof) and is of interest for architects. On five sides it is enclosed by anarcade supported by columns (sixteen in number, and four corner-pillars).— The antiquities discovered in Torcello have been collected in two smallMuseums. S. Lazzaro, the Armenian Mechitarist monastery on the island of thesame name, 2 M. to the S.E. of Venice, contains a considerable Orientallibrary, and a printing-office (shown by a monk; fee to the door-keeper).Byron studied Armenian here in 1816. On the way to S. Lazzaro wepass the island S. Servolo with the provincial lunatic asylum. S. Lazzaro
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TREVISO. 43. Route. 303 is more easily visited from the Lido (gondola with one rower there andhack l^fr., bargaining necessary, advisable only when the tide is coming in).A Tkip to Chioggia (I8V2 M.; 2l/t hrs.) may be recommended inclear^ weather and^ favourable conditions of ligbt. Steamers of the Societadi Navigazione Lagunare start 3 or 4 times daily (according to the season)from the Ponte della Paglia (return-fares 1 or 1/2 fr.)- The steamers ofthe Navigazione di San Marco, lighted by electricity, start from the VictorEmmanuel Monument (fares 75, 30 c.; no return-tickets) — The steamerpasses the islands of S. Servolo and £. Lazzaro (p. 302) and touches at(5 M.) Malamocco, whence we may walk back along the shore to (lx/4 hr.)the Lido (p. 300). I At (TV2 M.) Alberoni we*approach the Channel of Mala-mocco (p. 253), which is defended by two forts, and farther on we skirtthe inner side of the narrow Litlorale di Pellestrina. 10/2 M. S. Pietro inVolta. Beyond (IIV2 M.) Pellestrina (S

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