Identifier: rivieraorcoastfr00blac (find matches)
Title: The Riviera : or, The coast from Marseilles to Leghorn, including the interior towns of Carrara, Lucca, Pisa, and Pistoia
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Black, Charles Bertram, d. 1906
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Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nt burying-giound in Italy. The Corso Yittorio Emanuele traverses the most important part ofLeghorn, crossing at about half Avay the Piazza Yittorio Emanuele,having on the S. side the cathedral, whose facade Avas designed byInigo Jones. Farther east, at the eastern termination of the Corso, isthe Piazza Carlo-Alberto with the colossal statues of Ferdinand III.,died 1824, and of his successor Leopold II. At the western end of the Corso is the Piazza S. Michele and theharbour. In the piazza is a white marble statue of Ferdinand I., andround the pedestal four magnificent colossal statues in bronze by PietroTacca of Turkish slaves bound in chains. Beyond, across the bridge, are the Porto Yecchio or inner harbour,with the wharf of the steamers for Bastia in Corsica, and on the otheror west side of the mole the Porto Nuovo or outer harbour, protectedby a curved breakwater 6 furlongs or ; of a mile from the shore, finishedin 1863, 3300 ft. from north to south, having a depth of water from 24
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Straiv Hats. San Giuliano. Lucca. 159 to 38 ft., and a liglit at each extremity. Between the inner and theouter harbour is the mole 1500 ft. hnig. South from the railway station, at the west end of the Yiaie degliAcquedotti, is the Cisternone, an immense subterranean vaultedreservoir pierced with openings to admit air and light. The water isbrought from springs in the hills above Colognole, a village about 10miles S.E. from Leghorn, by an aqueduct 12 miles long. The exports of straAV plaits and manufactured straw hats fromLeghorn average in value £480,000 annually ; about one half going toAmerica. The most valuable straw for plaits is grown in Tuscany andfrom it the well-known Leghorn hats are made. Only the pipe of theu()per joint is used for plaiting. Tuscan plaits and hats varyenormously in quality and value ; the plait of a hat of good qualitymay represent the Avork of four or five days, while the plait for a hatof the highest quality may occupy from 6 to 9 months in making ; the

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