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English: Panorama from Monte Generoso


Identifier: switzerlanditaly00karl (find matches)
Title: Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol. Handbook for travellers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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to Como. MONTE GENEROSO. VII. Route 107. 453 The train crosses the road and the St. Gotthard line and ascendsthe Generoso (gradient 20: 100 ; then 22: 100), overlooking, on theright, the fertile Val diLaveggio, girt with wooded hills, the littletown of Mendrisio, and behind us, Lake Lugano with San Yitale onthe W. bank, and Mte. Salvatore to the N. We skirt abrupt cliffs andpass through a curved tunnel (156 yds.), just below which the sum-mit of Mte. Rosa is visible, to stat. (I3/4 M.) San Nicolao (2320),in the wooded Val di Solarino. Then a great bend and a tunnel of55 yds. Now, high on the hillside, we get views of the plain as faras Milan and Yarese, and of the wooded valleys of the Generoso,while to the right rises Mte. Bisbino, with its pilgrimage-church. — 3^2 M. Bellavista (4010; Restaurant; Alb. Bellavista, plain). Awalk leads from the station along the slope (benches) to the (10 min.)*Peiron, a spur immediately above Capolago, with a beautiful view,best in the morning, of L

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
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Camera location45° 55′ 48″ N, 9° 01′ 12″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo



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