Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)
Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London : J. and A. Arch · leaf 119
-termine. It is an octagonal dome, with four projections below, forming aGreek cross, with a little tower on each side of the entrance, inferior inheight to the dome. I call them towers and not turrets because they arecontinued down to the ground, and turrets might be understood as onlyelevations… … Just after leaving Monte Rosi we quitted the Siena road, and keeping tothe right, passed through fine groves of oak to Nepi, a town situated onthe edge of a deep ravine, and slept at Civita Castellana, which stands ona point of land between two such ravines, deeper than that at Nepi, andvery wild…
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