The Riviera, or, The coast from Marseilles to Leghorn : including Carrara, Lucca, Pisa, Pistoja and Florence / C.B. Black.

  • Black, C. B.
Date:
1884
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Credit: The Riviera, or, The coast from Marseilles to Leghorn : including Carrara, Lucca, Pisa, Pistoja and Florence / C.B. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE RIVIERA. —— HOTELS, PRODUCTIONS, AND CLIMATE. The Riviera is a strip of land extending 323 miles along the coast of the Mediterranean at the foot of the Maritime Alps and their off-shoots. It is usually divided into two portions —the Riviera di Ponente, from Hyeres to Genoa, 207 miles long; and the Riviera di Levante, from Genoa to Leghorn, 116 miles long. The milder and more frequented of the two is the former—the Western Riviera—which has been subjected to most careful and minute meteorological observations, and the various stations classified according to their supposed degi-ee of temperature. Yet in the whole 207 miles the difference may be said to be imperceptible. No one station in all its parts is alike, the parts of each station differing more from each other than the stations themselves. Yet each station has some peculiarity which suits some people more than others ; this peculiarity being more often accidental and social—such as the people met with, the lodgings, the general sur- roundings, and many other little things which exercise a more powerful influence upon the health and well-being of the mind and body than the mere fractional difference of temperature. None of the protecting mountains of any of the stations are sufficiently high and united to ward off the cold winds when the higher mountains behind are covered with snow. AH the ridges have deep indentations through which the cold air as well as the streams descend to the plain. Even if there were no openings the cold currents would still