Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)
Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London, J. and A. Arch · leaf 357
ighbourhood. There are also some specimens ofearly Gothic in Taormina, in which the doorways are of a singular, butby no means unpleasing style. The opening is square, with a small con-sole within each upper angle; and round it is a wide face, perfectlyplain; beyond this are clustered shafts, and… … The rocks about the theatre, and I believe in general, those on whichTaormina is placed, are calcareous. It seems, by what I could distin-guish of it, to be a gray, hard limestone, not at all crystalline, with whiteveins, but in the hills behind, and in a ravine which I passed after leavingthe…
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