¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
6 ft. deep, and injured the walls and foun dations of the houses so much, that to this day many of them require to be supported on props. At Lovere an in scription, about 18 ft. from the ground, records the height to which the water ing out the torrent. At T resend a |ths of the way to Tirano, a fine road leads S. over the Adda, by Aprica to Edolo in the Val Camouica. (Etc. 231.) From Edolo the traveller can proceed to Bergamo and Brescia, by a Dilhfence 3 times a week, along the shores of the
La go dMseo. Omnibuses daily to Colico to meet the steamers; 4 times a week to Bormio. Madonna di Tirano (Inn : Madonna), a small village, named from a church of the Virgin, also called 11 Santuario, lies at the mouth of the valley of Pus- chiavo. A road, partly practicable for cars, leads up it to the foot of the pass of the Bernina, and into the Engadine. The lake of Puschiavo, only 5 m. above Madonna, is exceedingly beautiful, and its trout delicious. The Swiss frontier is only 1 m. from Madonna. (See
Hand- hook for Switzerland.} If (2Z hrs.) Tirano (Inn : Post, dirty and extortionate), a small town of 2700 Inhab., which has suffered severe de vastations at various times from the inundations of the Adda. Indeed, it appears quite evident to all but the in habitants that a town has no business on the spot where they have set theirs down, since it is in perpetual danger of being swept away. A fearful tempest in August, 1834, completely destroyed a dyke of massive masonry, constructed along the
, It was closed in ancient times by a strong wall and gate over the road, which was shut at night, thus preventing all passage up or down the valley, whence it was called the loch. 1 ï (2 hrs.) An additional horse is required here. Bormio. (Tirano to Bormio, with stoppages, 7-| hrs.) (Ger man, Worms)— Inm: La Posta, exceed ing dirty, and had in other respects; Das Lamm. The Baths, m. higher up the valley, are far better quarters than either ; -.[• post extra is charged for driving thither, but