It Reminded Me Of The Palace
Of Tears In The Arabian Nights.
In the environs of Turin, the most remarkable buildings are a villa
belonging to the King called La Venezia, and the Superga, a magnificent
church built on an eminence, five miles distant from Turin.
In the Royal
Palace, on the Piazza del Castello, there is some superb furniture, but
the exterior is simple enough. The country environing Turin forms a plain
with gentle undulations, increasing in elevation towards the Alps, which
are forty miles distant, and is so stocked with villas, gardens and
orchards as to form a very agreeable landscape. From the steeple of the
Superga the view is very fine.
In the University of Turin is a very good Cabinet d'Histoire naturelle,
containing a great variety of beasts, birds and fishes stuffed and
preserved; there is also a Cabinet of Comparative Anatomy, and various
imitations in wax of anatomical dissections. Among the antiquities, of
which there is a most valuable collection, are two very remarkable ones:
the one a beautiful bronze shield, found in the Po, called the shield of
Marius; it represents, in figures in bas-relief, the history of the
Jugurthine war.[76] This shield is of the most exquisite workmanship. The
other is a table of the most beautiful black marble incrusted and inlaid
with figures and hieroglyphics of silver. It is called the Table of Isis,
was brought from Egypt and is supposed to be of the most remote antiquity.
It is always kept polished.
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