The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 476
-, like the rest of the Riviera, under theauthority of Genoa. It consists as usual of one principalstreet along the narrow strip of ground between the base SAN REMO. 451 of the hill on which the old town stands and the sea. Thetown consists of the ordinary pile of terraced houses withnarrow… … •^wii FIG. 273. DOORWAY IN TAGGIA. arches, of which we have met with examples elsewhere,thrown across the narrow streets, in order to strengthen thehouses against the shocks of earthquake to which thisregion is liable. These features sometime produce, together 452 MEDI.-EVAL PERIOD. with the stairs…
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