The eastern Alps including the Bavarian highlands, Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

Karl Baedeker

Date:: 1888

Credit: The eastern Alps including the Bavarian highlands, Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$80. From Trieste to Villach via the Predil. Comp. Map, ]>. 33i. 120 M. Railway to (35V2 M.) Gorizia (Gorz) in 2-2i/2 hrs. DiLreENCE from Gorizia fo (67 M.) Tarvis daiiy in 16 hrs. (5 11. 94 kr.). Railway from Tarvis to (IT'/'i M.) Villach in li/a br. From Trieste to (12 M.) Nabresina, see p. 414. The railway diverges to the right, at the station of Bivio Duino, and runs in wide curves towards the N.W. , near the coast. At Duino a tunnel 300yds.long is traversed; the little town lies on the sea, to the left, with a chateau of Princess Hohenlohe. At S. Giovanni the Timavo (Roman Timavus; Virg. Aen. I. 244-46'), which under the name of Reka disappears near St. Canzian (p. 414) in the grottoes of the Carso, emerges from a rock after a subterranean course of 18 M., and falls into the Adriatic 11/2 M. lower down. Near (22 M.) Monfalcone the train quits the coast, and then turns to the N., skirting the W. spurs of the Carso. 23 M. Ronclii; 26 M. Sagrado , beyond which we follow the valley of the Isonzo. 281/2 M. Gradisca; 31 M. Rubbia-Savogna. 351/2 M. Gorizia, Ger. f?or2(280'; *Posla; * Hotel-Pens ion For- mentini, with a pleasant garden; *Cur-Pension Hausner, 3-41/2 A- per day; * Corona d'Vngheria; Leone; Angelo d'Oro), the capital of an archiepiscopal see, with 20,912 inhab., charmingly situated on the Isonzo, is now a favourite resort of lung-patients owing to the mildness and dryness of the climate. (Pleasant walks and excur- sions ; theatre; military music in the Giardiuo Pubblico and in the Piazza several times weekly.) The cathedral merits inspection. In the upper and older part of the town is the ancient castle of the Counts of Gorizia, now in a ruinous condition, and partly used as a prison. Charles X. of France, who died here in 1836, and his grandson the Count of Chambord (d. 1883), are interred in the chapel of the monastery of Castagnavizza, on a height above the town (20 min.). The Monte Santo (2244'), 21/2 hrs. to the N., crowned with a pilgrimage-church, commands a fine view. The High RoAn leads from Gorizia on the left bank of the Isonzo, via Snlca.no, to (I31/2 M.) — 49 M. Canale, where it crosses the river. It then leads via Ronzina to (10 M.) Volzano, Ger. WoltscMch (Koffou), and crosses the fsonzo to (l'/4 M.) Tolmino, or Tolmcin (660'; Posta, dirty ). 111 the chateau of which Daiito, when a guest of the Pa- triarch of Aquileia, wrote several cantos of his Divine Comedy iho n^'T^U'*; f?''!?'' Bmedc.jcio, Joh. Carli, Franz Tufta). To 5 M tn k v i^ \ H'T.^? Tolmeiner Bach (Tominska Dolina), 1' '''•«cent to Fhtscl, or Sotscl.a G II.) is higlily attractive The l^' ' bank^,r r'f '*^ ^'7 ''^ U.c ca.stlc-hil[ we follow me U,tt bank of the Ison/.o to the hamlet of Gnbria, where we turn to Ihc 6 Thenr' '/'^K^ ''-^ f'''-'--'-'-'^ in ^onrs. [Ihe Kern may also he asccnrle.l from (.aporetfo via/Jrc.sx/ieji^a .n 6 hrs., or from Flitsch via the ^preMina Alp i„ !) hra., or from Sotscha$