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Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy (1874)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London : J. Murray · leaf 49

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The road from Basel to Baden is for the first half of the wayvery pretty ; we came in, unfortunately, for rather drenchingrain, and so lost all beyond the suggestion of some strikingviews. The towns through which we passed were not o muchinterest, though there were many picturesque and… … of some pretension), surrounded by very high walls, andentered ])y tall stone gate-towers, pierced with pointed arches, and surmounted hyupper stages of timber, vnihtiled roofs of quaint andeffective character; and hereand at Stein and Baden Inoticed that almost all thehouses were old and…

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