E Ben Appar Che D'animal Ch'abbia Ale
Sia Questa Stanza Nido O Tana Propria.[75]
The castle seemed the very neat and lair
Of animal, supplied with plume and quill.
- Trans. W.S. ROSE.
TURIN, 14 August.
Turin is a large, extremely fine and regular city, with all the streets
built at right angles. The shops are very brilliant; the two Places, the
Piazza del Castello and the Piazza di San Carlo, are very spacious and
striking, and there are arcades on each side of the quadrangle formed by
them. The Contrada del Po (for in Turin the streets are called
Contrade) leads down to the Po, and is one of the best streets in Turin.
Over the Po is a superb bridge built by Napoleon. In the centre of the
Piazza del Castello stands the Royal Palace, and on one side of the
Piazza the Grand Opera house. The streets in Turin are kept clean by
sluices. The favorite promenades are, during the day, under the arcades of
the Piazza del Castello and those of the Contrada del Po; and in the
evening round the ramparts of the city, or rather on the site where the
ramparts stood. The French, on blowing up the ramparts, laid out the space
occupied by them in walks aligned by trees. The fortifications of the
citadel were likewise destroyed.
In the Cathedral Church here the most remarkable thing is the Chapelle du
Saint Suaire (holy winding sheet). It is of a circular form, is inlaid
with black marble and admits scarce any light; so that it has more the
appearance of a Mausoleum than of a Chapel.
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