Identifier: southernitalysic00karl (find matches)
Title: Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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vities of which are filled with mud, and from whichcarburetted hydrogen gas issues with more or less noise (loudest in July).The ground, wherever it has been touched by the mud, becomes utterlybarren and looks as though it had been scorched. From the rail, station Aragona-Caldare a road leads to the S. to (5 M.)the high-lying Favara (1217 ft.; diligence in I2/3 hr., from Girgenti in 2 hrs.),with 20,400 inhab. and a castle of the Chiaramonti (14th cent.). To the right, and then to the left, opens a splendid view overthe hills as far as Girgenti and the distant sea. 841/2 M. Girgenti, see p. 337. The train descends, skirting the hill on which the town lies,passes through a short tunnel, crosses the valley of the Fiume diGirgenti by means of two viaducts, and turns to the W. 90 M. Porto Empedocle (^Trattoria Empedocle, near the harbourfair), formerly called Molo di Girgenti, a busy little seaport with11,060 inhab., where the sulphur and corn dealers of Girgenti haveextensive magazines. 1
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Scala nel I. 50.000. M 1 Ch-ilouLCtra G^o^ajlL.Anstall. voil Wagiuer *. Beljes, leip I 337 29. Girgenti. Hotels (comp. p. xx). *Gkand-Hotel des Temples, well situatedabout V2 M. to the S.E. of the town, on the way to the temples, openfrom Oct. 1st to May 31st, R., L., & A. 3V2-8, B. IV2, dej. 31/2, 1>. 5, pens.10-16, omn. IV2 fr.; Hotel Agkagas, nearer the town, open from Oct. 1stto May 15tb, R., L., <fe A. 3-8, B, IV2, dej. 3, D. 5 (with wine 31/2 and 6), pens,15, omn. 2 fr. — In the town: Albekgo Belvedere, at the W. end, belowthe Via Atenea, with a fine view, R., L., & A. 272-4, B. IV4, dej. 3, D. 41/2Cboth incl. wine), pens. 8-12, omn. 1 fr., well spoken of; Grande Bretagne,Via Atenea, pens. 8-10 fr. Restaurants and Cafes. Palermo, Garibaldi, Stella, Caffh Savoia, allat the W. end of the Via Atenea. Post and Telegraph Office, Via Atenea, at the Piazza SantAnna. —Chemist. Bonfiglio, Via Atenea 151. — Antiquities. Vincenzo Caltagirone,Via Atenea 7. Railway to Pal

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