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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the S.W., on the road to Genoa, once noted for its convent-library (forthe most part now in the Vatican). The Railway from Piacenza to Bologna follows the direc-tion of the Via Mmilia (comp. p. 313), several traces of which stillexist. To the left lies S. Lazzaro, an ecclesiastical seminaryfgreatlyenriched by Cardinal Alberoni (d. 1752). The church contains histomb, and pictures by Procaccini, Zucchero, etc. Near (48 M.) Pontenure the train crosses the Nure, and soonpasses Fontana Fredda, where Theodoric the Great and the Lombardkings once possessed a country-residence. Beyond (52y2 M.) Cadeothe Arda is crossed. 56 M. Fiorenzuola dArda, a small but thriv-ing place. 60 M. Alseno. — Then the small town (4500 inhab.) of (64y2 M.)Sorgo San Donnino (Aquila Romana; Leon d Oro), the ancientFidentia Julia, which received its present name in 387 from St. Dom-ninus, who had suffered martyrdom about a century earlier underMaximian, and to whom the °->i(*-nt*(~!n.th.edral is dedicated. This
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to Bologna. REGGIO. 45. Route. 319 is one of the finest Romanesque churches in N. Italy; the admir-able facade (the upper part unfinished) has three lion portals andnumerous reliefs (some by Benedetto Antelami, p. 323), and theinterior with its round-arch arcades is of elegant proportions. Steam-tramways connect Borgo S. Donnino with Soragna (p. 327), tothe N.E., and with the little watering-place of Salsomaggiore, to the S.W. 70 M. Castelguelfo, with a ruined castle erected by the Ghibel-line Orlando Pallavicino as Torre d Orlando, but captured in 1407and re-named by the Guelph Ottone Terzi of Parma. At (72 M.)Ponte Taro we cross the river Taro; charming view of the Apen-nines on the right. The costumes of the peasant-women here arepeculiar. 7872 M. Parma, see p. 321. — Parma is the junction for thelines to Suzzara and Mantua (see p. 226), to Piadena and Brescia(p. 180), and to Spezia (p. 99). Beyond (82^2 M.) S. Prospero Parmigiano the train crosses theEnza, formerly the boundary

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