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قراءة كتاب Vistas in Sicily
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VISTAS
IN
SICILY
| THE BLUE BOOKS OF TRAVEL |
| The Real Palestine of To-day |
| By Lewis Gaston Leary |
| Windmills and Wooden Shoes |
| By Blair Jaekel, F.R.G.S. |
| Vistas in Sicily |
| By Arthur Stanley Riggs, F.R.G.S. |
| Italian Lanes and Highroads |
| By Russel W. Leary |
| Other titles in preparation on England, France, Germany, Spain and other countries. |
| McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY |
| Publishers |
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Negative by W. von Gloeden.
“Sprightly little goatherds, whose heads are the heads of Greek fauns.” (Page 12)
V I S T A S
I N
S I C I L Y
BY
ARTHUR STANLEY RIGGS
F. R. G. S.
NEW YORK
McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY
1912
Copyright, 1912, by
McBride, Nast & Co.
Published, November, 1912
TO
MY WIFE
The acknowledgments of the author are due to the editor of The Travel Magazine, for his courteous permission to reprint some of the chapters which follow.
A. S. R.
Massy-Verrières,
France, June 5, 1912.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Introduction | i-xii | |
| I | Discovery | 1 |
| II | Palermo | 17 |
| III | A Night of Dissipation | 30 |
| IV | Cathedrals | 42 |
| V | Palaces and People | 56 |
| VI | The Plain of Panormos | 74 |
| VII | Around the Island | 87 |
| VIII | The Road to Syracuse | 107 |
| IX | The Harbor and the Anapo | 123 |
| X | Syracuse the Pentapolis | 133 |
| XI | Catania and Mt. Ætna | 152 |