Identifier: 10866333.5342.emory.edu
Title: Italy: a handbook for travellers. First Part (Nothern Italy)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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es with that fromPiacenza to Milan (p. 316). — 30 M. Codogno (9000 inhab.) possesses largecheese-manufactories (to Piacenza, see p. 316). Near (34J/2 M.) Pizzighettone,a fortified place, the Adda, which is here navigable, is crossed. — 46 M. Cre-mona (p. 177) is a terminus, from which the train backs out. To Treviglio(Milan and Bergamo) and Mantua, see p. 177. — 771/2 M. Brescia, see p. 187. From Pavia to Stradella, via, Bressana-Bottarone (see below), 20 M.,railway in l/4 hr. Stradella, see p. 315. From Pavia to Vercelli, see p. 160. The Railway to Genoa crosses the Ticino by a bridge V2 M.long, and almost immediately afterwards, beyond (26 M.) Cava Ma-nara, it crosses the Po. At (31 M.) Bressana-Bottarone diverges theabove-mentioned branch to Stradella (p. 3151. 3372 M. Lungavilla. 3872 M. Voghera (Italia), with 10,800 inhab., perhaps the an-cient Iria, on the left bank of the Staffora, was once fortified by Gian-galeazzo Visconti. The church of S. Lorenzo, founded in the 11th
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CREMA. 31. Route, ill cent., was remodelled in 1600. Steam-tramway to Stradella (p. 315).From Voghera to Piacenza, see p. 315. On the highroad from Voghera to Casteggio (p. 315), to the S. of therailway, lies Montebello, famous for the battle of 9th June, 1800 (five daysbefore the battle of Marengo). Here, too, on 20th May, 1859, the firstserious encounter between the Austrians and the united French and Sar-dinian armies took place. At (44 M.) Pontecurone we cross the impetuous Curone (dry insummer). Country fertile. 49^2 M. Tortona (Croce Bianca), the ancient Dertona, a town of7100 inhab., on the Scrivia. The Cathedral, dating from 1584, con-tains a fine ancient sarcophagus. Above the town are the ruins of acastle destroyed in 1155 by Frederick Barbarossa. From Tortona a branch-railway runs to (5J/2 M.) Castelnuovo-Scrivia,and a steam-tramway to Sale (p. 46). From Tortona to Turin via, Alessandria, see E. 11 a. 54 M. Rivalta Scrivia; 58 M. Pozzolo Formigaro.60 M. Novi, and thence to

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