The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-04-29

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tains and eroding sea. And such a
seal-all shades of blue, dark, light
and medium, reflecting for the most
part, just piles of stones or rather one
large stone shaped out. You have seen
mountains, but did you ever ride be-
meath them? And in some places we
Just hung out over the sea.
Altho the mountains are bare they
are quite thickly populated and here
and there one sees little houses perch
ed on or between huge rocks. The
land is terraced, little walls of stone
built up in steps to prevent washing
away of the scanty but fertile soil.
Often these "step walls" are higher
than the land behind them is wide. Ii
seems strange to see couple Of trees
growing and producing on what seems
to be but bare rock. We passed thru
several villages,among them the larg-
er towns Of Cetara and Majori. There
were watch towers along the coast
as protection from pirates. These
were erected in the sixteenth century.
At Amalfi,a beautiful town of about
5lO0 people, we stopped for lunch. We
stopped at the base of hill 23O feet
high, upon which was the old Capu-
chini Monestary which is built in
the hollow of rock. The monestary
is now suppressed and has been turn
ed into the Cappuccini- Coyento Hotel.
Here ! had my picture taken sitting
on the bench where sits the Cappuc-
cini Monk in the famous picture Of
Amalfi, which | have often seen but
never knew what it meant. Long
fellow wrote beautiful poem about
beautiful Atnalfi and its splendid view.
Two men brot chains to carry the
ladies up over the rocks to the mon
estary but we fellows climbed up the
rocky stairs. We were greeted at
the top in English quite effusively and
were shown about the monestary,
which has very fine cloisters and a
charming veranda underneath the
grapevines Where we had the finest
lunch we have had outside the United
States. All around are vineyards and
lemon groves.
After one and a half hours visit at
that most interesting place we start
ed out again and arrived back in
Naples in the evening. We drove out
the Appian Way thru catacombs,
cathedrals and ancient ruins. Brin-
disi is the end of the Appian Way, that
famous road built in the second CEN
tury B. c., we studied about in Gem
eral History. II
A few Of the other things we saw
in Naples were macaroni factories
where were miles of macaroni hanging
out in the sun to dry; the handsome
church Of San francesca di Paola,
built in 18l7-3l, to initiate the Roman
Pantheon; the Palazzo Rea1e or Royal
Palace begun in 1900, a large struc-
ture with it's eight marble statues Of
Neapolitan rulers; the Public Square
or Piazza del Municipo with its eques-
trian statue of. Victor Emmanuel II:
the handsome Municipo or town hall
around whose gates are few statues
of King Roger and Frederick IL; the
lCastel Nuovo built in 1908, enlarged
in fifteenth and eighteenth centuries,
and the long residence of Neapolitan
Kings; little shrines abounding in the
streets, some lit with candles:
That night we started for Rome.
Persico was on the job and had hired
an old man to get US four seats. The
seats had been hired out, t,but the four
men who had been hired to sit in them
until we arrived sold out to some one
else, so we were without seats. We