The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-03
STAY OF A WEEK IN ROME
lHLSTORIC PLACES VTSTTED BY ONE
VINO Kept HIS EYES OPEN.

Dresden. April %, 1895.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND CoURIEH
Our visit at Florence had been Of such
a pleasurable nature that we found it
difficult to tear ourselves away from
such historic and interesting associa-
tons, but the day of leaving came at
last, and we found ourselves very early
one September morning at the railroad
station taking our tickets for Rome,
and as the long train pulled away from
the station, and familiar landmarks
dwlndled behind us, we began to fully
realize that our faces were really set
towards Rome" Church spires and
towers lessened in the distance, and the
slender tower of Giotto flashed against
the blue Of a gorgeous italian sky till in
a short time every trace of Florence
had disappeared, but those fine old hills
which stand around Florence like sentt-
nels continued to rear themselves be-
hind us, till at last they too sank quiet
A ly beneath the northern horizon. We
were travelling by the quickest express
j train which runs between Florence and
4 Rome. and at it's quickest speed we
Travelled at only twenty-five miles per
. hour, and our slowness of progress at
X forded us good opportunity to study our
route as we Journeyed toward the south.
A We traversed extensive plains which
were rich in vineyards, which stretched
away as far as the eye could reach, and
these same plains have ever since the
days of the old Etruscans produced
vines and the fruit of the vine and OIL
4 i've. Again we passed along the sides
E of lofty mountains, and still again
through deep valleys and mountain
gorges Frequently we rushed past ru-
ined towns whose history stretches to
such remote periods that their names
have been lost in the fogs and mists of
antiquity The first town of any con-
siderable size was the ancient Arretium
or Arezzo of the present times; this
town Is situated in a very beautiful and
fertile district, and the whole region is
one of very historical "reminiscences.
This was one of those twelve Etrurian
cities which in $40 B. c. made peace
with the Romans in the great war
which ragged at that period. Calus Fla
minus in the year 1889 B. G, built the
u Via Flaminia between Arretium and
Bologna, and some traces of this road
are still TO be seen. Arretium became
n a very powerful city, too much so, the
N Romans thought, and in the civil war
the Roman general Sulla destroyed the
city; it was rebuilt and came to great
power, and its history became very va
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and retaken by the Goths and Lom-
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