Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 3): 3. ed., rev. and enl (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

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CLASSICAL TOUR

Ch. XIV,

side, and spreads her streets and churches, and
then her suburbs and villas, over a vast semi-
circular tract of crags, rocks, and declivities,
Its white building’s ascending one above the other
make a splendid shew, and give it an appear-
ance of much magnificence.
The interior of Genoa does not, in my opinion,
correspond with its exterior grandeur. Like
Vienna it is composed of well-built lanes, and
contains no wide, and only three beautiful
streets; the Strada Balbi, Strada Nova, and
Strada Novissima. The Strada Balbi com-
mences from a square called the Piazza Verde
surrounded with trees of no luxuriant growth;
but at one end, a magnificent double flight of
stairs, and houses, gardens, and churches inter-
mingled, rising in terraces one above the other,
give it a pleasing and romantic appearance.
The same street terminates in another square
called the Piazza del Vastato, whence begins
the Strada Novissima, which forms a sweep and
joins the Strada Nova, that opens into a lesser
square called Piazza delle Fontane Amore. These
three streets, though not sufficiently wide per-
haps for our taste, especially considering the
elevation of the buildings that border them are,
strictly speaking, composed of lines of lofty
palaces, some of which are entirely of marbles