Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car

Italian Highways and Byways From a Motor Car



B y F r a n c i s M i l t o u n O. N. I. Author of “Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine,” “Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre,” “In the Land of Mosques and Minarets,” etc. With Pictures B y B l a n c h e M c M a n u s



ONE travels in Italy chiefly in search of the picturesque, but in Florence, Rome, Naples, Venice or Milan, and in the larger towns lying between, there is, in spite of the romantic association of great names, little that appeals to one in a personal sense. One admires what Ruskin, Hare or Symonds tells one to admire, gets a smattering of the romantic history of the great families of the palaces and villas of Rome and Florence, but absorbs little or nothing of the genuine feudal traditions of the background regions away from the well-worn roads.
Along the highways and byways runs the itinerary of the author and illustrator of this book, and they have thus been able to view many of the beauties and charms of the countryside which have been unknown to most travellers in Italy in these days of the modern railway.