A Holiday in Umbria With An Account of Urbino And the Cortegiano of Castiglione
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II. ] PESARO 31 parting, furnished us with notes of recommenda- tion, as a most rispettabile famiglia, to the hotels at Urbino and Fossombrone. These introductions with which Italian innkeepers sometimes furnish you, if you have put yourself on friendly terms with them, as all sensible travellers will do, are of great service in securing attention, and I think moderating charges. CHAPTER III FANO— ANCONA From Pesaro it is a pleasant drive of about an hour along the coast to Fano. On the right a...re considerable cliffs of loose shale not amounting to rock, and in the distance may be seen the towers of Fano at the water s edge, and beyond them the great mountain behind Ancona. Fano, the ancient Fanum Fortunae, which Vitruvius calls Colonia Julia Fanestris, now a quiet country town with humble provision for visitors, was of more consequence in Roman times. It still boasts a Roman arch, erected in honour of Augustus, and it had a basilica built by Vitruvius, of which he gives a description in his fifth book.
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