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Blue Guide Northern Italy
June 23, 2008 · 3 Comments
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Stan Feinstein // Jul 28th 2008 at 3:57am
We are planning a trip to Liguria next May 2009, and bought the Blue Guide. In glancing through it, t seemed the most thorough, and the most interesting of the guide books at our local book store, and that has proven to be the case. We’ve read the section on Liguria several times, and always see something new. The pictures are stunning, and support our decision to go there. Thanks.
Peter McCormack // Aug 27th 2008 at 7:51am
Following a recent holiday this month in Piemonte, I have a minor correction to suggest, as follows:
On page 78, there is reference to the communal cemetery at Arquata Scrivia containing 94 Second World War British Graves.
Actually the graves all relate to the First World War, and the dates range from 1918 to 1920. (Strictly speaking, there is a separate Commonwealth Cemetery immediately adjacent to the local municipal cemetery, with 93 British graves and 1 West Indian.) Many of the deaths are recorded as being due to influenza or pneumonia. I discovered from reading a book “With British Guns in Italy” by Hugh Dalton, that Arquata Scrivia was an HQ for the British Army in Italy during the First World War, and later discovered that there were two British Military Hospitals there, which probably accounts for the number of graves.
Incidentally, Serravalle Scrivia, which is mentioned in the same paragraph, is the locus of a very large Italian Designer Outlet complex (McArthur Glen, I think). It is very close to the Roman remains of Libarna which lie a little to the south, which in turn are close to the cemetery at Arquata a little further south. I mention this as it can help to justify (from a “family perspective”!) a trip to the area.
Liz Mathews // Oct 25th 2008 at 9:51pm
In the Blue Guide to Northern Italy, the church of San Giacomo dall’Orio in Venice is referred to throughout as San Giacomo dell’Orto (p430); this is probably a confusion with the church of the Madonna dell’Orto - but San Giacomo is ‘of the marsh’, while the ‘orto’ refers to the garden in which the statue of the Virgin performed her miracles. This distinction, though minor, could confuse the visitor.
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