The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 482
. GATEWAV AND STREET IN TAGGIA. San Remo. This ancient town, originally independent,came ultimately, 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… … ^mr^- 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 MEDIEVAL PERIOD. with the stairs…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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