Bradshaw's Monthly Descriptive Railway Guide [afterw.] Bradshaw's Through Route Railway Guide

George Bradshaw

History

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Bradshaw's August 1887 railway guide;: A new edition of the August 1887 issue of Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for Great Britain and Ireland ([Reprints of economic classics])

David and Charles

Bradshaw's illustrated travellers' hand book in [afterw.] to France

Europe

RareBooksClub.com

Bradshaw's London monthly alphabetical hand-book. May-Sept., 1862

Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book to Switzerland and the Tyrol

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...here. Diligence from Chiusi. To the right are the volcanic hills (2,000 to 2.500 feet high), round Cctona and Radicofani, an old hunting-seat of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany. Ficulle (Stat.), from whence the line descends to Orvieto (on the Chiana); then to Orte (on the Tiber--see Route 27), where the rail from Ancona, Spoleto, and Terni falls in; and thence descends the Tiber to Rome. Cable tram from the station to the town of ORVIETO (Stat.) The Urbs vttus of the Lombards, the Roman Urbibentum. Hole's. Belle Artt; AqutU Hiaiiea. A dingy-looking cathedral town, in a fine spot, and capital of a former Papal province. Population, 16,424. It standson a volcanic hill, 1,170 feet above the sea (funicular railway from the station, 500 yards long) and was formerly a residence of many Popes of the Guelph party who found a refuge here. Besides the Palazzo Pubblico(Town Hall) and the College, its most remarkable building is the handsome Duomo, an interesting specimen of Italian-Gothic, founded in honour of the miraculous Host at Bolsena, and of an ancient image of the Madonna. It was begun in 1290, by L. Maltini, of Siena, nearly finished in the fourteenth century, but not finally completed till about 1600, after nearly 400 architects, sculptors, painters, Ac, had contributed to build and adorn it. Its three-gabled Front, like that of Siena, is 132 feet wide and 160 feet high, ornamented, chiefly on the four pilasters, with a profusion of carvings, mosaics, and statues, by Giovanni da Pisa and his pupils; the subjects being events from the Old Testament, the Life of Christ, the Last Judgment, Hell, and Paradise. dominus meus, mortuus est." The bishop liked good wine, which he called est, and tho butler's inscription Is to the effect that his master died here thro...

Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book to Italy

Nabu Press

Bradshaw's Continential Railway Guide July 1913

Middleton Press

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