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( Ferroni / 23 Corsinu 24 .. Stroizi 25 „ Pitti, (Gallery) 26 Accadrorna, delle BcUc Arti, 27 Bill- Biccardiana, 28 , laurenziana 29 , Marucofltana, 30 Museo diS Marco 31 Museo Arrdieologwolttmscaii.il Egyptian) 32 Masco di fisU-o, e Storia Maturate 33 Museo Nazumate (H BargeHv) 34 Spedale dsgli Innocent?, “35 Opera, del Throw?, » Via Maggio, 18 (St. Mark’s). Services as above. J 9 Church of St. Joseph, Via S. Caterina (Roman Catholic). Services, 8, 8.30, 10 and 3.30. B 2 FLORENCE. American Episcopal Church. — A new church has been (1911) opened in the Yia Oricellari ( see p. 82). Services, 11 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. Scottish Presbyterian Church. — Lung’ Arno Guic- ciardini, 11. Services 11 and 4. Baptist Church.— 6, Borgognissanti. Se’rvice, 11 a.m. English Physicians. — Dr. A. It. Coldstream, 11, Lung’ Arno Guicciardini. ,, ,, Dr. E. A. Gates, 8, Corso Regina Elena. ,, ,, Dr. Henderson, 11, Lung’ Arno Guicciardini. ,, ,, Dr. Woodyatt, 24, Lung’ Arno Acciaioli. American Physicians. — Dr. Parke, Yia Garibaldi, 6. Dr. Kirch, Yia Montebello, 1. Dentists. — Dr. William Dunn and Dr. Edward Dunn, Yia Tornabuoni, 9. ,, Dr. Heims, Dr. Simmons, Yia Borgognis- santi, 1. ,, Dr. Stuart, Yia dei Bardi, 19. Chemists. — Roberts & Co. (English) Yia Tornabuoni, 17; Anglo-American, Yia Cavour, 39 ; Inter- national Pharmacy, Piazza Yittorio Emanuele, 5 ; (German) corner of Borgog- nissanti and Yia dei Fossi. Nurses and Nursing Homes. — English Nursing Sisters, 48, Yia Bolognese and Yilla San Girolamo, Fiesole. Miss Fasulo, Yia Rondinelli, 7. The Marienheim (German). — Yia de’ Serragli, 110 . St. Thomas’s Nursing Home (English) 8, Yia Dante da Castiglione. Nurses can be engaged on application to any of the above homes, or at the chemists. FESTIVALS. 3 Hospitals. — English — -Villa Regina Natalia, Via Bolog- nese, 48. Charge, 7 to 12 fr. per day. ” Foreign — Villa Betania, outside the Porta Romana. Charge, 7 to 10 fr. per day; poor patients gratis. Florence Club. — Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele. Members of recognised clubs admitted without ballot. Italian Cyclist Touring Club.— Via dei Martelli, 7. Lawn Tennis Club. — In the Cascine. Golf Club.— Links at San Donato, near the Cascine (tram from the Piazza del Duomo in 12 min.). Hon. Sec., 2, Via Vecchietti. English Newspaper.— The Florence Herald (weekly October-May) 10 c. Office, 61, Via Ricasoli. Reading Rooms and Circulating Library, Vieus- sieux, Via dei Vecchietti, 5. Charge, 50 c. per day, 3 fr. per week, 7 fr. per month to the Reading Room ; 1 fr. per week to the Circulating Library. Booksellers. — Cole, Via Tornabuoni, 17. ,, Seeber, „ „ 20. ” Bemporad, Via Proconsolo. Authorised Guides . — See Festivals. — March 25 Thursday in Holy Week Good Friday 3 . 10 . Annunciation. Festival at Annunziata Church (p. 73). During the Carnival preced- ing Lent there are several “ Veglioni” (masked balls). Consecration of Holy Oil in the Duomo, and washing the feet of twelve poor men by Archbishop. Procession (Renaissance cos- tumes) at Grassina (see p. 5). b2 4 FLORENCE. Festivals. — Easter Saturday “ Lo Scoppio del Carro.” Fireworks in Piazza del Duomo. Ascension Day Crowds go to the Cascine before daybreak to break- fast on the* grass and to catch Crickets, which are sold in cages as “children’s birds.” May 25 ,... S. Zanobi. Roses blessed in the Duomo. June 24 St. John Baptist. High Mass in Duomo. Races. Illumina- tions. July 6 San Bomolo , Patron Saint of Fiesole. Fair (see p. 111). August 10 St. Lorenzo. Festival in all Churches in Italy bearing his name. August 15...... Assumption of the Virgin. Musical Services in the Cathedral. Decorations., September 8... Nativity of Virgin. “ Rifi- colone ” (paper lanterns), and decoration of street altars. Theatres : — Della Pergola . V erdi Niccolini . Politeama Fiorentino Politeama Nazionale Salvini . Alhambra Via della Pergola (winter) Opera. Via Giuseppe Yerdi . ,, Yia Ricasoli . . Comedy, ,, Ponte Rosso To the Barriera Aretina ,, ,, dell* Africo ,, della Querce » ,, San Niccolo To the Porta Romana ,, „ al Prato „ „ San Frediano From the Piazza della Signoria every few minutes. From the Piazza > del Duomo every few minutes. } From the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo every few minutes. Electric Trams. To Fiesole 50 c. (San Domenico 30 c.) Viale dei Colli and Gelsomino 30 c. . Sesto Fiorentino 35 c. and 30 c. - Rovezzano 25 c. and 20 c. Bagno a Ripoli 25 c. and 20 c. . Grassina ..... Vingone 30 c. . From Piazza Duomo. del To Settignano 30 c. . . \ Cassellina 30 c. (continue by steam tram to Porto di [ From Via dei Pecori. Mezzo 40 c., see below) Cascine (Piazzale del Re) . ./ Steam Trams. To Poggio a Caiano 85 c. and 65 c.1 From Piazza della Prato 1 1. and 75 c. . . . J Stazione. Tavarnuzze (see below) to Greve 1 1. 15 c. and 95 c. Cassellina (see above) to Porto di Mezzo 40 c. To Tavarnuzze 35 c. (continue by ) steam tram to Greve > 1 om del 11.15 c. and 95 c., see above) j Mercato N uovo. 6 FLORENCE. Omnibus service between the Porta Romana and the Porta alia Croce, passing the Piazza della Signoria and the Piazza del Duomo. Cabs. — From the station to the town, or for a course in the town, 1 lira by day, 1 lira 30 c. by night. By time, 1 lira 20 c. for the first half-hour, 80 c. for the next and 75 c. each subsequent half-hour; by night lire and 1 lira. Luggage 25 c. per package. Every desired stoppage begins another course. Outside the city gates, first half-hour 2 lire ; each subsequent half-hour 1 lira. A few motor taxi-cabs have been introduced as an experi- ment, but they are not in general use, the tariff being much higher than for ordinary cabs. SPECIAL MEMORANDA. The Climate of Florence, subject to sudden and ex" treme variations, is very delightful in autumn and spring, cold in winter, hot in summer. Warm clothing is essential in winter and spring. April, May, and part of June are pleasant months, also the latter part of September, October, and November. July and August and the first half of September are very hot, even during the night, and those who are able to do so pass the summer and autumn in the country. The winter, from December to March, is cold and often windy (tramontano), with, however, many mild and calm days. During the year, on an average there are 100 fine days, 155 changeable, and 110 rainy. Snow seldom falls, and when it does it is but to remain a few hours. The mean annual temperature is 58° Fahr., with a maximum of 103°, and a minimum of 22°. The mean temperature of July is 80°, and of January 40°. Villas are cheap, the cost of living is moderately cheap ; and these advantages, combined with the wonderful galleries of art, bring many strangers to reside in the beautiful city and suburbs, and the ever-increasing number of English and American permanent residents cannot now be less than four thousand. Florence is constructed in the form of an irregular quadrangle, cut by the Arno in a diagonal line from the south-east to the north-west corner. By far the largest part of the city is on the north side of the river, but the Pitti Palace, the Botanical and Public Gardens, Museum of SPECIAL MEMORANDA, 7 Natural History, Amphitheatre, &c., are upon the south side. The most central part of the city is on the northern bank of the river. In September, 1911, the city limits were very considerably extended, in order to include many populous districts outside the previous boundary. Florence is plentifully supplied with pure water, which the Municipality have secured from the Garfagnana Moun- tains (at a distance of over one hundred kilometres). An excellent mineral water, the Cinciano, lately discovered, may be obtained at all hotels, restaurants, &c. The system of drainage in Florence is now completed in accordance with the latest principles of hygiene. Hotels are numerous, most of them comfortable, and moderate in their charges. {See Appendix.) Pensions, or Boarding-houses, in Florence are numerous, at rates ranging from 8 to 12 lire per day. Some of the largest and best are met with in various parts of the Lung’ Arno, in the Via Strozzi, the Piazza S. Trinita, the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, and the Piazza Cavallegiere. Furnished rooms can also be had on reasonable terms in summer, but prices are generally higher in the spring. Those who stay for any length of time in Florence should select the northern bank of the river rather than the southern, as it is more healthy. In winter, rooms looking southward should always be secured, if possible. Furnished Apartments may be found in all the best parts of the city, as, for instance, in the Lung’ Arno Acciaioli, the Via Venezia, Viale Principe Amadeo, Via La Marmora, Via Porcellana, &c. Contracts should be made stipulating that in the price agreed on everything is included {tutto compreso). Restaurants, when good, are generally expensive, espe- cially those in the Via Tornabuoni. Confectioners recom- mended to ladies are Honey and Neveux, Via Tornabuoni, 16 ; Giacosa, Via Tornabuoni, 11. Churches are open all day, except about from 12 to 2 p.m. Morning light best for visiting them. There are many more Theatres than those before- mentioned, and places of amusement open at various times during the year. Their programmes are exhibited in placards and newspaper advertisements. For Promenades and Excursions the afternoon is the most favourable time, as during the forenoon the city and suburbs are often veiled in haze. 8 FLORENCE. COOK’S CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS. An Excursion is made from Thos. Cook & Son’s Office, 10, Via Tornabuoni, at 9.30 a.m. daily (except Sunday), visiting all the chief places and buildings in Florence; Fare, 12 lire (or $2*35, or 95. 8 Poetry. | History. Navigation. 1 i Science. ! Theology. J urisprudence. Music. Civic and Military Heroes. We return to the Colonnade, and have on our left hand the disused Mint ( Zecca ) and Post Office. Almost imme- diately opposite, last door but one on the left, is the entrance to the GALLERIA DEGLI UFFIZI. (16) At the Uffizi there is a lift to the left of the entrance ; the charge, 50 c., includes return. The passage over the Ponte Vecchio, which joins the Uffizi and Pitti Galleries, is open on Sundays as well as week-days (see pp. 54 and 92). Sticks and umbrellas left at the door of one gallery will be carried to the door of the other for 25 c. This collection is perhaps the most wonderful in the world. It was originated by the Medici, and supplemented by the Lorraine family, and has been added to from time to time, 40 FLORENCE. until now it is a complete exemplification of the progress and development of art. The Gallery is open daily, 10 to 4. Admission 1 lira, the fee being paid on the ground floor. Sundays, 10 to 2, free. No guide is needed, the pictures being labelled with name of the artist and the subject. The pic- tures are numbered, but not consecutively, and are liable to be re-arranged from time to time. Catalogues, 3 lire, in English, Italian, or French. At the present moment (1912) the new Director is developing a scheme for the re-arrangement of the whole gallery, so that the works of art may appear as far as possible in chronological order, and so demonstrate the progress of art from the earliest times, for which the collection is so admir- ably adapted. Should any picture not be found in its place, application to the custodian will readily enable the visitor to locate it. Considerable alterations have taken place since the last edition, several new rooms having been added and others closed in connection with the extension scheme. Ascending by a lift (50 c.) to the second floor, or by the stairway of 128 steps, we enter the First Vestibule, with busts of the Medici family. — Statues : Mars, Silenus, and Infant Bacchus. Roman bas-reliefs, processional subjects. On the First Floor are Four Rooms containing Drawings and Architectural Plans removed from three rooms, now closed, at the end of the Western Corridor. It being im- possible to expose the whole collection in the space available, the works of each master are exhibited in turn, the others being meanwhile kept in albums, reference to which may be made on application to the custodian. The collection was founded by Cardinal Leopoldo de’ Medici, and had already numbered 40,000, when, in 1866, Professor Emilio Santarelli made a bequest to the gallery of 12,461 original drawings, ancient and modern. The collection is not yet definitely arranged, but a catalogue has been prepared by Sig. Nerino Ferri (1| lire). It is impossible to make an adequate selection in these pages, but the fol- lowing list of some of the principal artists will be found interesting : — XIV. Century. — Taddeo et Ange Gaddi, Laurent de Bicci, Laurent Ghiberti-Pisanello, Simone Martini. XV. Century. — Beato Angelico, Andrea del Castagna, Paolo Uccello, Lucca della Robbia, Masaccio, Benozzo GALLERIA DEGLI UFEIZL 41 Gozzoli, Fra Filippo Lippi, Antonio e Piero del Pollaiuolo, Andrea del Yerrochio, Luca Signorelli, Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo di Credi, Leonardo da Yinci, Botticelli, F. Squarcione, Gentile e Gio. Bellini, Andrea Mantegna, Carpaccio, Liberale da Yerona, Giorgione, Schongauer, Israel Yan Meckeln. XYI. Century. — Raffaello, Michael Angelo, Fra Bartolomeo, M. Albertinelli, Andrea del Sarto, Baldassarre, Peruzzi, Beccafumi, II Sodoma, Giulio Romano, Tiziano, Sebastiano del Piombo, II Pordenone, Giovanni da Udine, Tintoretto, Paolo Yeronese, Correggio, B. Cellini, Pierino del Yaga, Baroccio, Albert Diirer, Holbein, Luca di Leyda, Rubens, Yan Dyck. XYII. Century. — Guido Reni, Domenichino, Albano, Spagnoletto, Guercino, Salvator Rosa, Borgognone, Luca Giordano, Callot, * Poussin, Murillo, Y elasquez. References referred to on next page. 1. First Yestibule. 2. Second Yestibule. Yenetian School. 5. Tuscan School (see also 10, 11 , 12 ). 6. Hall of Lorenzo Monaco. 7. Hall of Botticelli. 8. Hall of Leonardo da Yinci. 9. Hall of Mich. Angelo. ) Tuscan School ( see 12 * j also 5). 13. Tribune. 14. Italian School. 15. Dutch School. \ Closed Flemish and N German [contents in School. J Room 38. 18. French School. 19. Cabinet of Gems. 20 . ] 21 . 22 . 2 ^* ^ Portraits of Painters. 25. j 26. I 27. J 28. ) Passage leading to j Pitti Gallery. 29. Hall of Yan der Goes. 30. Hall of Rubens. 31. Cabinet of Inscriptions. 32. Cabinet of Hermaphro- dite. 33. Hall of Baroccio. 34. Hall of Hiobe. 35. Hall of G. da S. Giovanni. 36. Drawings and Sketches. 37. Pastels and Miniatures. 38. FLORENCE. For references see 'preceding page. GALLERIA DEGLI UFFIZI. 43 Second Vestibule. — The Florentine Wild Boar and Two Dogs are the finest things in this vestibule; all the statues, busts, &c., are ancient. The horse may have belonged to the Gro\ip of Niobe (p. 57). The Corridors contain drawings, pictures, statues, sarcophagi, busts, an endless series, and extend along three sides of the gallery. We enter the East Corridor (179 yards long!). The ceiling paintings are by PoceMi (1581), and represent mythological subjects. Among the Sculptures in the Corridors should be noticed specially — 35. Agrippina. 39. Sarcophagus — Life of Roman hero. 48. Agrippa. 52, 59, and 75. Athletes. 58. Wingless Victory. 69. Wife of Nero, Poppea Sabina. 71. A Child (Nero?). 76. Julia, daughter of Titus. 77. Otho. 88. Gany- mede. 90. Vestal Virgin veiled. 95. Sarcophagus — Story of Meleager. 96. Trajan. 99. Hercules. 119. Apollo. South Corridor. 125. Sleep. 129. Sarcophagus — Fall of Phaeton. 138. Boy extracting Thorn (another at Rome). 141. Pedestal of Candelabra, dedicated to Mars. 142. Minerva (restored). 145. Venus. 146. Nymph. 150. A Child (Nero?). West Corridor. 155, 156. Two Statues of Marsyas, opposite each other. 195. Leda. 204. Physician. 209. Esculapius. 224. Apollo (restored). At the end of the corridor is — 385. Copy of the celebrated Laocoon of the Vatican, by Baccio Bandinelli. Starting again from the entrance, we will name some of the famous Pictures in the Corridors. East Corridor. 8. Christ in the Garden 27. Mourning over the body of Christ . L. Monaco. Giottino. 44 FLORENCE. 24. 23. 25. 53. 28. 45. 39. S. Ansano Annunciation S. Giulietta Annunciation Simone and Lippo Memmi of Siena. Neri di Bicci . . Agnolo Gaddi. Cosimo and Damain (Medici patron saints) .... Lorenzo di Bicci . Adoration of the Magi . . Lorenzo Monaco , a Camaldolese Friar SS. 63. Coronation of the Virgin 85. Madonna Adoring the Child 65. Adoration of Magi . 69. Hope .... 74. Madonna and Child 54. Descent of Christ into Limbo 55. Creation of Adam . 61. Crucifixion 62. Magdalene Cosimo Rosselli. Lorenzo di Credi. . Cosimo Rosselli. A. Pollaiuolo. Luca Signorelli. Passignano. Jacopo da Empoli. . Lorenzo Lippi. . , Cigoli. In the East Corridor the first door to the left of the entrance gives access to Rooms III and IV. The works of the Venetian School are perhaps the richest in the collection alter the Tribune. Among a host of valuable pictures should be especially noticed — Room IIP 576. Portrait of Sansovino . Titian. 589. Martyrdom of St. J ustina . Paolo Veronese. 609. Battle Scene (sketch) Titian. 614. Giovanni delle Bande Here . Ibid. 638. Portrait of Sansovino Tintoretto. 641. Catherine Cornaro, Queeu of Cyprus Room IV. Titian. 571. Portrait of Gattamalata . . Giorgione. 579. Annunciation ..... Paolo Veronese. 596. Esther and Ahasuerus Ibid. 599. Duchess of Urbino .... Titian. 605. Duke of Urbino .... Ibid. 617. Marriage at Cana of Galilee . Tintoretto. 618. Madonna and Child (sketch) . Titian. 621. Apocryphal Scene in the life of Moses Giorgione. GALLERIA DEGLI UFFIZL 45 626. Flora . Titian. 630. Judgment of Solomon .... Giorgione. 633. Madonna and Child, SS. John and Anthony . Titian. 1002. Virgin and Child . . . attributed to Titian. 1111. Altar Piece, Adoration, Circumcision, Resurrection ..... Mantegna. Tuscan School Room V. Large fresco (much defaced) representing the “ Last Judgment,” by Fra Bartolomeo and Bertinelli , removed from the Hospital of S. Maria Nuova. See copy close by. Virgin adoring the Child .... Lorenzo di Gredi. Assumption ...*••• Bogliani. As the collection of the Tuscan School ( see also Rooms X, XI and XII) entirely surpasses any that can be seen elsewhere, we shall name many of the principal pictures, in order that the visitor may have an opportunity of noticing the works of those whose influence upon art was felt all the world over , although now some of the pictures fail to excite much interest except for the connoisseur. The arrangement is made with a view to demonstrate the progress and influence shown in succeeding ages. Room 5 contains early examples. Following these in chronological order are the Halls of Lorenzo Monaco (Xo. 6), Rotticelli (7), Leonardo da Vinci (8), Michelangelo (?), with master- pieces by these artists, together with examples by other masters, in which the various influences are readily traceable. Room VI. Hall of Lorenzo Monaco. 1290 . Coronation of the Virgin . . . Fra Angelico. 17. Tabernacle, with gold ground, Madonna, Child Jesus, Two Saints and 12 Musicians (Triptych) . . 1 bid. 1294. Altar-piece, St. Peter, the Adoration of the Magi, St. Mark ...... Lor. Monaco . 1302. Four Saints ..... Benozzo Gozzoli. 1309. Coronation of the Virgin (Triptych) . . . Ibid 1310. Altar-piece, SS. Mary Magdalen, Nicholas, John and George . Gentile da b abriano 46 FLORENCE. Room VII. Hall of Botticelli. 39. The Birth of Venus 1103. Coronation of the Virgin 1182. Calumny ..... 1267 bis. Magnificat .... 1286. Adoration of the Magi, Portraits of the Medici Family 1299. Fortitude ..... 1316. Annunciation .... . Botticelli. . Ibid. . . Ibid. . Ibid. . Ibid. . . Ibid. . Ibid. Room VIII. Hall of L. da Vinci. 1252. Adoration of the Magi (unfinished) . L. da Vinci. 1287. Madonna and Child .... Lor. di Credi . “ If music and painting were ever allied, their union is expressed in this lovely and harmonious picture.” — S. and J. Horner. 1288. Annunciation . . . . . L. da Vinci . Room IX. Hall of Michael Angelo. 1139. Holy Family 1160 . A nnunc i a Ii° n 1291. Holy Family 1295. Adoration of the Magi 1301. SS. James, Eustace, and Vincent 1307. Altar-piece, Madonna and Child 1549. Madonna adoring Child Michael Angelo. Lor. di Credi. Luca Signorelli. D. Ghirlandaio. A. Pollaiuolo. F. Filippo Lippi. Filippino Lippi. Rooms X, XT, and XII. Tuscan School. Room X. 1112. Madonna enthroned, SS. John and Francis ..... A. del Sarto. Andrea Yannuchi, called Andrea del Sarto, because he was the son of a tailor, was born in 1488 ; and the bane of his existence was an infamous woman who became his wife. “ His only model for female studies was his wife ; and even when he did not paint from her, she so possessed his thoughts that unconsciously he repeated the same features in every face he drew, whether Virgin, or saint, or goddess.” GALLERIA DEGLI UEFIZI. 47 1254. St. James and Two Children 1257. Adoration of the Magi . 1259. Visitation of Elizabeth to Mary 1260. Madonna and St. John 1261. St. Ives ..... 1264. Madonna and Child 1265. St. Anna and the Virgin (unfinished) 1266. Portrait of Sculptor . 1267. Cosimo, Pater Patriae . 1268. Madonna Enthroned . 1269. Lorenzo dei Medici . 1271. Descent into Limbo 1274. Joseph ..... 1275. A Miracle of St. Zenobius . 1277. The Miracle of the Tree 1278. Erminia Healing the Wounds of Tancred (from Tasso’s “Jeru- salem Delivered ”) . 1279. St. Sebastian 1280. St. Thomas receiving the Girdle of the Virgin . 1281. Duke Alexander 1284. Venus (Imitation of the style of Michael Angelo) Room XI. Andrea del Sarto. Filippino Lippi. . Mariotto A Ibertinelli Biliverti. Jacopo Chimenti. Franciabigio . Fra Bartolomeo. A. Bronzino. Pontormo . . F. Lippi. Vasari. Angelo Bronzino. Biliverti. . Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. Ibid. . Ottavio Vanhi. Bazzi ( Sodoma ). Granacci. Vasari. Pontormo. 1300. Portraits of Duke and Duchess of Urbino .... Pietro della Francesca. 1558. Madonna and Saints . . . School of Perugia. 1563. I Angel and Vigin of the Annuncia- 1564. j tion (Fragments) . . . Melozzo da Forli. This room contains also some tapestries of the Flemish school, and four antique statues. Room XII. 1148. Leda ....... J. Pontormo. 1149. Magdalen in the Desert (Imitation of Correggio) C. Allori. 1151. The Genius of Painting . . G. da S. Giovanni. 1152. The Eternal (a Sketch) . . . F. Bartolomeo. 1153. Hercules and the Hydra . . Antonio Pollaiuolo. 1161. Birth and Presentation of Christ . Fra Bartolomeo. 1162. St. John and St. Zacharias . . . Fra Angelico. 48 FLORENCE. 1164. Maria dei Medici 1178. Marriage of the Virgin 1180. Judith with Head of Holofernes 1184. Death of the Virgin A . Bronzino. Fra Angelico. . C. Allori. Fra Angelico. Fra Angelico was “ a man with whom the practice of a beautiful art was thenceforth a hymn of praise, and every creation of his pencil an act of piety and charity ; and who, in seeking only the glory of G-od, earned an immortal glory among men.” — Mrs. Jameson. 1187. Martyrdom of St. Maurice . 1189. Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo 1196. Expulsion from Paradise 1198. Birth of St. John the Baptist 1199 Infant Saviour 1201. Christ . . . . . 1213. Christ on the Cross 1220. Portrait . , . • 1227. Bianco Capello 1235. Madonna and Child 1312. Perseus and Andromeda Jacopo Pontormo • Angelo Bronzino . Jacopo Pontormo . Ibid. Cristofano AUori. Carlo Bold. A. Bronzino. Jacopo Pontormo A . Bronzino Fra Bartolomeo. Piero di Cosimo. From the last room of the Tuscan School, or from a door on the left of the East Corridor, we enter Room XIII. The Tribune, an octagonal room, built in 1610, by Bernardo Buontalenti. It contains the choicest works of the best masters, and is the richest collection in Florence, perhaps the richest in the world. The tourist whose time is limited must make the Tribune the special object of his visit. It is well to see all the gallery contains ; but if it is a question with him whether he shall see all cursorily, or the Tribune thoroughly, we strongly recommend the latter. In the inner circle of the room are Five Masterpieces of Sculpture, each of world-wide celebrity. The first in importance is the Venus de’ Medici — bought by the Cardinal Ferdinand de’ Medici, and brought to Florence about 1680. It was found in the Villa of Hadrian in Tivoli, and bears an inscription in Greek on the pedestal, intimating that the GALLERIA PEGLI UFFIZL 49 artist was Cleomenes , son of Apollodorus. Everyone who has seen this exquisite work has felt the power of its fascination. The Apollino, or young Apollo, so called to distinguish it from the Apollo Belvedere, was brought to Florence with the Venus de’ Medici, and is thought to be by the same artist (Cleomenes). The ease and grace of the attitude, and the thoughtful beauty of the face, are very charming, and exhibit art of the very highest order. It was, unfortunately, much injured by a portrait of Charles V., by Van Dyck, falling upon it; and some art critics think it was injured quite as much by the restorations executed by Bartolini, a Tuscan sculptor. The Wrestlers ( Lottatori ), a small elegant group, full of energy and skilful detail. It was found at Borne (injured, since restored) with the Children of Niobe, 1583 ( see p. 57). The Grinder (copies of which, in all shapes and sizes, will be found all over Italy) is a slave, supposed to be con- nected with the flaying alive of Marsyas, or, perhaps, with the conspiracy with the sons of Brutus. Found at Borne in the sixteenth century. Or, perhaps, it only represents a knife-grinder, but experts are now convinced it represents a slave waiting the order of Apollo to flay Marsyas. It is a wonderfully living statue, the attitude most natural, and the whole arrangement very effective. The Dancing' Faun, of which Mr. John Bell in his “ Travels in Italy/’ says, “ It is, perhaps, the most exquisite piece of art of all that remains of the ancient ; the torso is the finest that can be imagined.” Maffei is, also, of the same opinion. The statue was restored by Michael Angelo. The Pictures in the Tribune are not less remarkable than the Sculptures. 197. Elizabeth Brandes (first wife of the painter) . Rubens. 287. Francesco delle Opere . 1104. St. Jerome .... 1107. Slaughter of the Innocents . 1108. Venus and Cupid . 1109. Cardinal Agucchia 1110. Holy Family 1115. Jean de Montfort 1116. Portrait of the Prelate Beccadelli D. da Volterra. Orazio Alfani. . Va n Dyck. Domenichino , . Perugino. Spagnoletto. Titian. Titian, E 50 FLORENCE. 1117. 1118. 1120. 1121 . 1122. 1123. 1124. 1125. 1126. 1127. Yenus of Urbino. Rest during the Flight into Egypt Portrait of a Lady Ibid. . Correggio . Raphael . Painted when Raphael was only twenty years of age. Portrait of a Lady Madonna, SS. John and Sebastian Fornarina (baker’s daughter) Portrait of Evangelista Scappa * Madonna at the Well . Isaiah ...... St. John the Baptist . . . Mantegna . . . Perugino. del Piombo. . Franc Francia. Franciabigio. Fra Bartolomeo. . . Raphael . One of the few paintings on canvas by Raphael. 1128. Emperor Charles Y. .... .Van Dyck. 1129. Madonna with the Goldfinch ( Cardellino ) ...... Raphael. Painted in 1505, at the age of twenty-two. “Full of lovely simplicity and heavenly grace.” 1130. Job . . . . . Fra Bartolomeo. Fra Bartolomeo, usually known as II Frate, the Friar, was born in 1469. He was a convert of the great Savonarola ; and after the death of that martyr he took vows and became a Dominican monk, abandoning the pencil for some years. Afterwards, however, he resumed painting, and left some immortal works. 1131. Pope Julius II. 1132. Head of John the Baptist 1133. Bacchante . . . . . 1134. Madonna . . . . . 1135. Beheading of John the Baptist 1136. Holy Family . . . . 1137. Endymion Sleeping 1138. Eve 1140. Yenus, and Minerva, and Hercules 1141. Adoration of the Magi 1142. Adam ...... 1143. Christ Crowned with Thorns. 3458. Portrait of Sick Man . Raphael. . Correggio. A. Carracci. . Correggio. Luini. Paolo Veronese. . Guercino. . Cranach. Rubens. . A . Diirer . . Cranach „ Lucas of Leyden. Del Piombo. Leading out of the Tribune is Room XIV. Northern Italian School, containing works of other Italian schools than the Tuscan, principally Yenetian and Lombardy. In this and the GALLERIA DEGLI UFFIZI. 51 following rooms only a selection of the most remarkable pictures will be enumerated. 995. Massacre of the Innocents . 998. Virgin, with Jesus and St. John 1005. Landscape .... 1006. Madonna, Child, and St. John 1010. Holy Family 1012. Landscape 1025. Madonna and Child . Dosso Dossi. . Guido Belli. . Salvator Rosa. . Parmigianino. . Ibid. . Salvator Rosa. Andrea Mantegna. A charming picture, worthy of close study. Room XV.* Dutch School. 882. Landscape ..... . Ruysdael. 888. Soap Bubbles .... P. van Slingeland. 891. Amsterdam .... . Hey den. 926. Woman Selling Pancakes . Gerard Dow. 976. Portrait of the Painter. . F. Mieris. 977. Playing the Violin Jan Steen. 979. Landscape ..... . Rembrandt. 981. The Painter and his Family F. Mieris. 985. Adoration of the Shepherds . Adrian Werff. Rooms XVI and XVII. Flemish and German Schools. Room XVI * 706. Repentance of St. Peter 717. Interior of a Church 751. St. George 761. Landscape Teniers , Jun. Peeter Xeefs. Cranach. Jean Bruegel. Room XVII* 765. Portrait of Richard Southwell 766. Portrait of his Father . 774. Landscape and Sea 777. St. James the Apostle . 784. Zwinglius, the Swiss Reformer 786. The Schoolmaster . Holbein , Jun. . Albert Dilrer. Claude Lorraine. . A Ibert Durer. . . Holbein. . Gerald Dow. * The contents of these rooms have been temporarily placed in Room 38, but will probably be replaced in 1912. e2 FLORENCE. 52 793. Mercury and the Daughters of Aglaia . Elzheimer. 799. Sir Thomas More in his Youth . . . Holbein. 812. Venus and Adonis . Rubens . 1159. Head of Medusa (Flemish School, for- merly attributed to L. da Vinci). “ It represents the severed head of the Medusa, seen foreshortened, lying on a fragment of rock; the features are beautiful and regular ; the hair already metamorphosed into serpents 4 ..... . Which curl and flow, And their long tangles in each other lock, And with unending convolutions show Their mailed radiance.’ Those who have once seen this terrible and fascinating picture can never forget it. The ghastly head seems to expire, and the serpents to crawl into glittering life as we look upon it.” — Mrs. Jameson. Room XVIII. 654. 669. 670. 674. 679. 680. 689 French •Battle Scenes Madame de Grignan . Portrait of Rousseau . The Poet Alfieri Theseus The Countess of Albany School. . Borgognone. Mignard. . Larguillikre. Francois Xavier Fabre. . Nicolas Poussin . Francois Xavier Fabre . Room XIX. The Cabinet of the Gems. is at the end of the short corridor, and at the south extremity of the long east corridor. Hot open on Sundays. The room itself is a gem, being supported by four columns of alabaster and four of verd-antique. The precious stones are kept in numbered cabinets, containing hundreds of works in rock crystal, jasper, lapis-lazuli, agate, onyx, porphyry, turquoise, amethyst, mounted in gold, pearls, diamonds, &c., of the finest finish, made in Florence, during the epoch of the Medicis, by Benvenuto Cellini , John Bologne , Orazio Mochi , Michel Mazza- ferri , Messaroni , and other artists. “ The collection of camei and intagli, or precious stones cut in relief or engraved, was begun by Lorenzo de J Medici, and besides being the oldest collection of the kind in Europe, consisted of at least 3,000 pieces. The period during which the GALLERIA DEGLI UFEIZI. 53 art of engraving precious stones was brought to greatest perfec- tion by the Greeks and Romans extends from b.c. 400 to a.d. 500. The best gems belong to the reigns of Alexander of Macedon, b.c. 300 ; of Mithridates in Pontus, b.c. 120 ; of Augustus Caesar, b.c. 63; and of Hadrian, a.d. 117. The art was revived in Italy in the sixteenth century, and attained to high excellence by Italian, English, and German artists in the eighteenth. We can form no more perfect idea of Greek art than that presented in these engraved gems, which from the minute size, the durability of the material, and frequently from a certain superstitious value attached to the supposed properties of precious stones, have been preserved uninjured, where statues have been mutilated, and pictures destroyed.” # In the first cabinet on the right may be mentioned a large vase of deep-coloured lapis-lazuli, three small busts of women, two small bas-reliefs, gold and jasper, and an elegant agate vase. In the centre of the room is a cabinet containing a casket of rock-crystal lined with silver, upon which are depicted, with wonderful skill, scenes in the history of the Saviour, from the Nativity to the Ascension. It is the work of Valerio Belli of Vicenza, and was executed for Clement VII., whose arms it bears. In the second cabinet on the right is a portrait of Cosimo II., a costly work in pietra-dura, gold, diamonds. Case 4. Venus and Cupid, statuettes in porphyry, by Pietro Maria Serbaldi da Pescia. Case 5. Jasper vase with a golden figure of Hercules upon it, by Michel Mazzaferri . A column of rock crystal, with a mass of figures upon it, commemorative of the destruction of the Sienese Republic. A small vase in emerald, a rock crystal cup engraved. Case 6. Rock crystal cup, by Benvenuto Cellini ; a portrait bust of Tiberius in turquoise, by Benvenuto Cellini . Among the curiosities in the room are eighteen vases of most costly material, bearing the inscription of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and a variety of urns, caskets, bas-reliefs, and precious treasures, which once belonged to the Medici family. The valuable Medici collection of Camei and Intagli, * “Walks in Florence ” (S. & J. Horner), which see for an admirable account of this collection. 54 FLORENCE. formerly in the Hall of the Cameos ( see p. 56), has been transferred to this room. Passing along the short South corridor, and into the West corridor, we have on our left the entrance to Rooms Nos. XX- XXVII. Rooms of the Painters. First Floor. Among the celebrated portraits are to be noticed — Van Dyck. Overbeck. Rubens. Ingres. Hans Holbein. Sir Joshua Reynolds Quinten Matsys. Elizabeth Le Brun. Andrea del Sarto. George Harlowe. Lorenzo Lippi. Winterhalter. Raphael. Alma Tadema. Michael Angelo. Herkomer. V asari. Holman Hunt. Leonardo da Vinci. Canova. Baccio Bandinelli. Romney. Titian. Sir Anthony More. Paolo Veronese. Angelica Kaufmann. Dosso Dossi. Charles Le Brun. Leandro Bassano. James Northcote. Lodovico Carracci. Goodall. Guido Reni. Sir Godfrey Kneller. Francesco Bassano. Jacques Cabot. Albert Diirer. Watts. Gerard Honthorst. Millais. Gerard Dow. Orchardson. Rembrandt. Leighton. Agostino Carracci. Constant. Giovanni Bellini. Ingres. Giorgione. Corot. Antonio Carracci. David. Pordenone. Fantin-Latour. Annibale Carracci. von Stuck. Tintoretto. Next comes the Passage (28) leading to the Pitti Palace. (See p. 92.) Next to the .above-named passage on the left is GALLERIA DEGLI UEFIZI. 55 Hall Room XXIX. of Van der Goes, containing works by Van der Goes , Memling , Van der Weyden , and others. 1525. Triptych ...... 703. Madonna and Child, with two Angels playing Violin and Harp . 795. The Entombment 769. Portrait of a Man Praying . 237. Portrait of Q. Matsys and Wife 698. Madonna and Saints Van der Goes . J. Memling. Van der Weyden . . J. Memling. . Q. Matsys. . Van der Goes. Room XXX. * Hall of Rubens. 140. Henry IV. of France at the Battle of Ivrv ...... Rubens. 147. Henry IV. entering Paris after the Battle of Ivry ...... Ibid. (Both the above unfinished.) 216. Bacchus ...... Ibid. 210. Portrait of Philip IV. of Spain . . (copy) Rubens. 1523. Portrait of Stuart Princes . . (copy) Van Dyck. 148. A supper by Candle-light . . . Honthorst . Several Portraits by Sustermans. Room XXXI. Salle delle Iscrizioni (Hall of Inscriptions), containing many tablets and monuments, with inscriptions in Greek and Latin, and some exquisite statues, Greek and Roman; among them — 262. Bacchus and Satyr. 263. Mercury. 264. Priestess. 265. Venus Genetrix (restored). 266. Venus Urania. 269. Jupiter Ammon. 300. Demosthenes. Room XXXII. Sala dell’ Ermafrodito (Hall of the Hermaphrodite), named from the exquisite statue (306) of Hermaphrodite lying upon the skin of a tiger — portions of the statue restored ; 308, Ganymede, restored so much by Benvenuto Cellini that scarcely 56 FLORENCE. anything beyond the torso is ancient. But the restored parts are perfect. 310. Hercules Strangling the Serpents. 315. Torso of a Faun — a wonderful work. 318. The Hying Alexander. 320. The Genius of Sleep, altered by Benvenuto Cellini into a Cupid. 323. Cupid and Psyche. Found at Rome, 1666. A door from this room leads to the Hall of the Cameos, which is now closed. The Currie collection is now in the Archaeological Museum (p. 90). Room XXXIII. Hall of Baroccio. A saloon named after Baroccio, whose great work is in this room, viz. : — 169. The Virgin interceding with the Saviour— the picture is called the Madonna del Popolo. . . . Baroccio . In this room are also — 157. Madonna and Child, with St. Joseph, and two Angels . Honthorst (Gherardo delle Hotti.) 162. Sibyl 163. Portrait of Galileo . 165. Madonna and Child 171. Man with a Monkey 180. Portrait of Helen Froment, second wife of Painter . 186. Mary Magdalen 190. Adoration of the Shepherds 191. Head of Madonna . 203. Bradamante and Fiordespina 222. The Infant Saviour. 1114. Sibyl of Samos 1119. Duke Francis Mario II. . 1266. Portrait of Sculptor 1269. Lorenzo de’ Medici. Portraits of Children of Cosmo I. 3399. Guido Reni. Sustermcins. Carlo Dolci. A. Carracci. attributed to Rubens. . Carlo Dolci. . Honthorst. Sassoferrato . Guido Reni. . Albani. Guercino. Baroccio. . Luini. Vasari. Angelo Bronzino. Susanne surprised by the Elders . . Guido lxeni. Also paintings by Van Dijck , Giulio Romano , Sitstermans, Andrea del Sarto , Sodoma , Pontormo , Rossi Salviati , and others. GALLERIA DEGLI UFFIZL 57 Five very * fine tables in Florentine mosaic — especially the centre table, on which twenty-two workmen were engaged twenty-five years, at a cost of eighteen thousand pounds. Room XXXIV. Hall of Niobe. contains the wonderful series of statues found at Rome at the Porta S. Paolo in 1583, and brought to Florence in 1771. How they originally stood, whether in a group or simply as now arranged, has not been discovered, nor is it certain that they all belong to the same group. The group is composed of sixteen statues — the mother, fourteen children (seven sons and seven daughters), and their pedagogue. According to Ovid and Apollodorus, Niobe, the wife of Amphion and daughter of Tantalus, boasted of being the mother of so many fine children, and insulted her sister, Latona, who, in revenge, caused the children to be slain by Apollo and Diana. Ovid relates that the massacre took place in the Hippodrome, near the Walls of Athens. The statues are numbered from 241 to 256. They are very wonderful, and some very graceful and beautiful; the uncertainty as to whether they are originals by Scopas, or copies from Praxiteles, remains, and so does the certainty expressed by hundreds of travellers, that the present arrangement is disadvantageous to their full effect and meaning. The attitudes of the figures running away from the shafts of Apollo and Diana; of the weeping mother defending her youngest child, who clings to her ; and of several others, are remarkably fine. They are not, however, of equal merit, and this has fostered the impression that some are originals and others copies. In the centre of the room is the Medici Vase, of Greek workmanship, representing the Sacrifice of Ipliigenia. Room XXXV. Hall of Giovanni da San Giovanni. Contains several paintings and frescoes by this artist and thers. Room XXXVI. Drawings and Sketches. 58 FLORENCE. Room XXXVII. Pastels and Miniatures. The three rooms numbered 38 on plan temporarily contain pictures from Rooms 15, 16 and 17 (see p. 51). Retracing our steps along the west corridor to the passage leading to the Pitti Palace we descend the staircase to the long corridor, which leads over the Ponte Vecchio. The cor- ridor contains a series of portraits of the Medici family, Generals, Popes, Cardinals, Princes, Princesses, &c., of different countries, not of great merit, but interesting for their costumes, &c. We pause at the windows which overlook the Boboli Gardens, to enjoy the view, and in a few steps more we reach the Palazzo Pitti ( see p. 92). For one day the visitor will probably be quite satisfied with his inspection of the Ujfizi collections , and will postpone to another opportunity his visit to the Pitti Palace and Galleries (see p. 92). The collection from the Galleria Feroni, bequeathed to the city by the Marchese Leopoldo Feroni in 1850, but con- taining no pictures of great importance, has been transferred to the former Convent of St. Onofrio in the Yia Faenza (admission 50 c., Sundays free), close to the Politeama Nazionale and the Central Station, called the Cenacolo di Fuligno. Here also is a large fresco of the Last Supper, by Perugino. The Biblioteca Nazionale is at present on the first floor of the Uffizi (entrance by the eighth door from the Piazza), but will be removed to a new building near the Church of Sta. Croce as soon as completed. The foundation stone was laid by the King of Italy on May 8th, 1911. Open daily, 10 to 4, except Sundays and festivals (separate tables for ladies). It is an enormous collection — 480,000 vols., 18,000 MSS., in- cluding several very rare impressions, such as the first printed Homer, Cicero, Dante, &c. Equally wonderful, the central Archives of Tuscany, 200,000 documents, and 300,000 bound volumes, arranged in some 200 rooms above the Library. The courtyard will be formed by the Second Cloisters of Santa Croce ( see p. 64), the building being erected round them. CHURCH OF SANTA CROCE. 59 PIAZZA S. CROCE. In former times this was the place where public festivals and games were held. Here also, in 1250, the first Parlia- ment of the people was formed. The great object of interest now in the Piazza is the Monument to Dante by Pctzzi , which was unveiled in the presence of the King of Italy, on the 14th May, 1865, the 600th anniversary of the birth of the poet. This monument, 19 feet high, stands on a pedestal 23 feet high. Around the Piazza are several very old palaces, formerly the property of noted Florentines. The Palazzo dell’ Antella is covered with frescoes, the work of Giovanni da San Giovanni and others, the best masters of that period (1621), who completed the work in twenty-seven days. CHURCH OF SANTA CROCE. (5) Santa Croce has been called, over and over again, the “ W estminster Abbey of Florence/ 5 and as no guide-book is complete without this quotation, we relieve ourselves of it at once. This wonderful church was built by Arnolfo di Cambio , the architect of the Cathedral. Both buildings were in course of erection at the same time, and have had an equally splendid contemporaneous history. The Cathedral is asso- ciated, however, with the busy life, labours, and triumphs of the Florentines, while Santa Croce, from its earliest date, has been associated with the deaths, resting-places, and living memories of her best and greatest men. The foundation-stone was laid on the day of the Holy Cross (“ Invention of the Cross 55 ), whence its name. The interior is 460 feet long and 125 feet wide, and is in the shape of a Latin cross. The different parts of the exterior are of recent date. The present fagade, by Niccolb Matas , was only completed in 1863, while the Campanile only dates from 1842. The church would have had an old and magnificent facade had the offer of one Castilio Quaratesi, to erect it at his own expense, been accepted ; but as he made a condition of the arrangement that the arms of his family should appear upon the building, the offer was declined ; but a green and white marble slab at the foot of the facade remains as a memorial to his offer. 60 FLORENCE. Impressive and beautiful as the exterior is, the interior immeasurably surpasses it. It is a poem in stone, and is remarkable for frescoes by Giotto , Taddeo and Agnolo Gaddi , Maso di Barreo , Giovanni da Milano , &c. There is a solemnity and grandeur throughout the sacred pile, inspired as much, perhaps, by the recollections it calls forth, as by the dignity and grace of the structure ; for — “ In Santa Croce’s holy precincts lie Ashes which make it holier, dnst which is, Even in itself, an Immortality. Though there were nothing save the past, and this, The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos: here repose Angelo’s, Alfieri’s bones, and his, The starry Galileo, with his woes; Here Machiavelli’s earth returned to whence it rose.” To get the best effect, enter by the western door. A bronze statue of S. Louis, Bishop of Toulouse, formerly over the west window, has been recently (1908) taken down and temporarily placed in the refectory (p. 64). This statue is interesting from the fact that it was the last Donatello ever executed, and that it formerly stood outside the church, over the principal entrance. Very fine stained-glass window, Descent from the Cross, Lorenzo Ghiberti . Stone table with the initials, “ I. H. S.,” by S. Bernardino of Siena. It was he who designed these initials (familiar to everyone in every Christian country), to honour the name and work of the Redeemer. Ie sus LTominum Nalvator. The missionary work of S. Bernardino was to inscribe these initials wherever he went. Many tombs and tablets are around this western door, and the way is paved with memorials of the illustrious dead. On the right, tomb of Michael Angelo Buonarroti (died at Rome 1564). Design of Vasari. Allegory : Sculpture, Architecture, and Painting as mourners. The bust is said to be a faithful likeness of this gifted man. “ Amongst the most illustrious of Florentines was Michael Angelo. Painter, sculptor, architect, civil and military en- gineer, and poet, he was one of the most variously accom- plished men who ever lived ; and in every one of these departments he was great. Nothing that came forth from his hands was mean or poor. His faults were those of super- abundant strength and force. St. Peter’s at Rome is one amongst the many buildings which display his power as an CHURCH OF SANTA CROCE. 61 architect. The paintings in the Sistine Chapel have already been referred to as illustrations of his genius as a painter. As a sculptor he is perhaps unrivalled since the palmy days of Greece and Rome. In the great engineering works of his time, his advice and co-operation were eagerly sought, both in peace and war. That he is less known as a poet is mainly due to the fact that his sonnets are often mystical in thought and obscure in expression .” — Italian Pictures. It is said that Michael Angelo chose the position of his tomb, so that when the doors were thrown open he might see the cupola of the Cathedral. A pretty notion, but carried a little too far. ( Casa and Galleria Buonarroti, p. 103.) On the wall a bronze tablet in memory of the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82), who was buried at Caprera, where he died. Nowhere is the stain upon the honour of Florence more glaringly seen than in the ponderous monument to Dante. He died in 1321. His monument was reared in 1823 ! It is the work of Stefano Ricci, and has the merit of being very large. Writers have described it over and over again; and it is unfair for a guide-book to prejudice the minds of visitors by one-sided extracts, but Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his quaint way, has hit off a very graphic description : “ Huge cold images weeping and sprawling over it, and an unimpressive statue of Dante sitting above.” Perhaps the greatest satis- faction to admirers of Dante when gazing upon this mass of marble is to know that his body rests at Ravenna, and that this is only a monument, not a tomb. (At the foot of Dante’s monument lie the remains of Ugo Fos = colo, who was banished from Italy by the Austrians, and spent his life in the study of the great master whose monu- ment overshadows him. His remains were brought from Chiswick in 1871.) A wonderful contrast is presented by the monument to Alfieri, by Canova. It is full of grace and tenderness. Alfieri was a patriot and a poet ; he died in 1803. The Countess of Albany caused his monument to be erected at her own expense in 1810. The tomb of Machiavelli, the historian of Florence, by Spinazzi, 1787. Earl Cowper started a subscription for this monument, and this is only one of many instances showing that Florence belongs, not to Italy, but to the whole world. The tomb of Luigi Lanzi (d. 1810) is by Giuseppe Belli FLORENCE. - =•- 62 His “History of Painting” (Bohn’s Standard Library — translation) is one of the standard works on art, and will be enjoyed by every student of the treasures of art in Italy. The tomb of the Cavalcanti family. Monument to Benedetto Cavalcanti. More interest attaches to the frescoes than to the tomb; the one representing SS. John and Francis being by Andrea del Gastagno. On the wall adjoining is The Annunciation by Donatello. Monument of Leonardo Bruni, who, like many other famous Italians, is better known by the surname derived from the place of his birth, Arezzo = Aretino. Aretino was one of the greatest exponents of the philosophy of Aristotle. The monument is by Rossellino. Renaissance tomb of G. Rossini, the composer (1792- 1867), by G. Cassioli Monument of Leopoldo Nobili, natural philosopher. The last monument on this side of the church. South Transept. — Monument of Hon Neri Corsini, by Fantacchiotti , is a large and beautiful work of recent erection. Tablet to Francesco Barbarini, inscription by Boccaccio . Bronze tablet to Carlo Goldoni (1707-93), the celebrated playwright, who has written upwards of 150 pieces. Monument of the Countess of Albany, widow of the last Pretender, by Giovannozzi. In the northern transept is a monument to Cherubini, the celebrated musical composer, by Fantacchiotti. North Aisle. — Monument to Raphael Morghen, the engraver .... Fantacchiotti . Monument to Carlo Marzuppini (an exqui- site work), “ considered one of the finest tombs in Tuscany ” . . Desiderio de Settignano. Monument to Count Vittorio Fossombroni . Bartolini . ,, Honatelli, the artist (1386-1466) Lucchesi. ,, Giovanni Lami . . . Spinctzzi . „ Galileo Galilei (see p. 104) Giulio Foggini . In the nave, near the choir, is the tomb of J ohn Catrick, Bishop of Exeter, who died in Florence in 1419. The principal monuments in this church are in the south and north aisles. The chapels and frescoes, for which latter Santa Croce is almost as famous as for its tombs, are in the south and north transepts. We advise the visitor to examine the monuments at one visit, the chapels and frescoes at another, and the cloisters at another. CHURCH OF SANTA CROCE. 63 In the south transept, first on right, is — The Chapel of the Holy Sacrament (Sacramento), sometimes called the Castellani Chapel, as it was founded by that family. Frescoes — Scenes from the lives of SS. Nicholas, J ohn Baptist, and Anthony, and John the Evangelist . Stamina & Agnolo Gaddi. Two Statues, SS. Bernardino and Dominic Robbia School. Chapel of the Baroncelli Family. Frescoes — Legends in the life of the Virgin Taddeo Gaddi. Monument, with shield of the Baroncelli family, statues, &c. ... Andrea Pisano (?). Dead Christ (marble) Bandinelli. Chapel of the Medici, called also the Chapel of the Novitiate, contains — Altar-piece in four panels — Coronation of A shrine for the Sacrament, very beautiful ..... Mino da Fiesole. Paintings School of Giotto. In this chapel lay the body of Galileo for many years, neglected, until the body of his pupil, Vincenzio Viviani, was laid beside it. A hundred years after, Florence bestirred herself to do honour to one of her greatest men. Sacristy. — Frescoes by pupils of Giotto , Taddeo Gaddi, and others. Ecclesiastical ornaments — A Head of Christ, &c. A grating of delicate iron-work separates the Sacristy from the Rinuccini Chapel. — Frescoes . Giovanni da Milano. Altar-piece Ibid. Between the Velluti and the Riccardi Chapels is a bronze memorial tablet to Giuseppe Verdi, the composer, who died Jan. 27, 1901, in Milan. Peruzzi Chapel (4th) contains some of the finest frescoes in the whole church, representing scenes from the lives of SS. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, by Giotto. Bardi Chapel (5th), adjoining the Peruzzi Chapel, also contains celebrated frescoes by Giotto , the principal relating to the history of St. Francis of Assisi. the Virgin in the centre . Fine bas-reliefs on altar, by Giotto. . Luca della Robbia. 64 FLORENCE. The chapels in the north transept are not so interesting as those in the south ; they are — The Chapel of S. Anne : tomb of Pietro Nardini, musician (1725-96). Memorial tablet to Count Cavour (1810-61). Ricasoli Chapel : notice a stone here which fell into the church from the roof, and by a miracle was prevented from doing injury. Chapel of St. Lawrence.— Frescoes . Bernardo Baddi. Chapel of St. Sylvester. — Frescoes, Scenes in life of the Saint . . . Giottino . Tomb of Uberto de Bardi. — Marble and fresco ; curious .... Giottino (?). Niccolini Chapel. — Fine marbles. The frescoes in the choir represent the Legend of the Finding of the Cross, by Agnolo Gaddi. Buskin, who spoke of the Bardi Chapel as “the most interesting and perfect little Gothic chapel in all Italy,” gave a full account of the frescoes in Nos. 1 and 3 of his “ Mornings in Florence.” The Cloisters, which were built by Arnolfo , are surrounded by arcades adorned with frescoes. Many slabs are here to the memory of families ancient and modern. In the court is a statue by Bandinelli , representing God the Father. Here “ the ground we tread once breathed,” the monks of the order having been buried in this court. The Pazzi Chapel was designed by Brunelleschi , and is a work of great beauty. It is in the form of a Greek cross. The portico, bearing the arms of the Pazzi family, is singularly beautiful ; so also is the interior. In the Refectory (fee to attendant) — Frescoes attributed to Giotto and Taddeo Gaddi ; subjects, Crucifixion, Tree of Life. In the smaller refectory is a fresco representing a miracle of St. Francis, by Giovanni da San Giovanni [see also p. 60), Many a dark passage in history has been chronicled in this Convent of Santa Croce ; for it was here that the iniquitous Inquisition held its tribunals from the year 1284 to 1782, when it was abolished by the Grand Duke Pietro Leopold I. The Second Cloisters, by Brunelleschi , one of the finest colonnaded courts of the Early Renaissance, are now being used for the new National Library (see p. 58). SAN LORENZO. 65 SAN LORENZO (2) is near the Cathedral, and presents an unattractive exterior. It stands on the site of the oldest structure of the city, however; and a legend attaches to it, that a pious woman prayed for a son, and when he was born she called his name Lorenzo, built a church to St. Lawrence, and St. Ambrose consecrated it in the year 393. In the fifteenth century it was rebuilt, partly under the direction of Brunelleschi . It is in the shape of a Latin cross, and contains many monuments and works of art of great interest ; but the general effect is chilly and unimpressive. The Chapel of the Holy Sacrament (end of north transept) has a fine altar, with statue over it, attributed to Donatello . Cupola, painted by a modern artist, Meucei. Chapel Corbelli, Monument to daughter of Count Moltke, by Dupre. 1864. Opposite, in Cappella degli Operai, Annunciation, by Fra Filippo Lippi , and Monument to Donatello, by Romanelli. South side of nave, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (fresco), Angelo Bronzino. Two oblong* pulpits designed by Donatello. They were used not only for the ordinary services of the church, but for theological disputations, for which purpose they are placed at a suitable and convenient distance from one another. In this church Savonarola, towards the end of his career, preached some of his most thrilling sermons against the abuses of the age. In front of the high altar an inscription in the pavement marks the spot under which lie the remains of 4 ‘ the Father of his Country,” Cosimo de’ Medici. The inscription is “ Cosmus Medices : Hie situs est — Decreto publico — Pater Patriae.” He died in 1464. The Sagrestia Vecchia (old Sacristy) designed by Stucco-reliefs of the Evangelists Four Statues of Saints . Bust of St. Lawrence over door Sarcophagus of Giovanni and Piccarda Medici ...... The Sarcophagus of Piero and Giovanni Medici is an elegant monument of porphyry and verd-antique . i Brunelleschi. . Donatello. . Ibid. . Ibid. . Ibid. indrea Verrochio F 66 FLORENCE. The Sagrestia Nuova (new Sacristy), entrance from the Piazza Madonna behind ‘the church, was built by Michael Angelo (1519 — 1531), and is in every way worthy of the great master. It contains — Two sepulchral monuments, to the right and left of the altar, of Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici, the work of Michael Angelo . Giuliano is seated in an attitude of contemplation ; Lorenzo is seated as a general, looking do wn upon a busy scene of strife. They are marvels of art, have been the praise of many generations; and the grace, the life, the thought, seen through the marble, almost make one feel in the presence of a miracle. Not less remarkable are the two colossal figures at the feet of the statues. Those beneath Giuliano represent Night and Lay, symbolical, perhaps, of Death and Resur- rection; and those beneath Lorenzo, Dawn and Twilight. Mrs. Jameson speaks thus of chapel and monuments : — “ The statue of Lorenzo is almost awful in its sullen grandeur. He looks down in a contemplative attitude — hence the appellation by which the figure is known in Italy, II Pensiero (Thought or Meditation). But there is mischief in the look — something vague, ominous, difficult to be described. Altogether, it well-nigh realises our idea of Milton’s Satan brooding over his infernal plans for the ruin of mankind. Mr. Rogers styles it truly ‘ the most real and unreal thing that ever came from the chisel.’ And his description of the whole chapel is as vivid as poetry, and as accurate as truth could make it : — “ ‘ Nor then forget that chamber of the dead, Where the gigantic shades of Night and Day, Turn’d into stone, rest everlastingly. There, from age to age, Two ghosts are sitting on their sepulchres. That is the Duke Lorenzo. Mark him well ! He meditates, his head upon his hand. What from beneath his helm-like bonnet scowls ? Is it a face ? or but an eyeless skull ? ’Tis lost in shade — yet, like the basilisk, % It fascinates and is intolerable.’ ” We must linger awhile to hear the comments of Nathaniel Hawthorne : — “It is the one work worthy of Michael Angelo’s reputation, and grand enough to vindicate for him all the genius that the world gave him credit for. And yet it seems a simple thing SAN LOEENZO. 67 enough to think of or to execute — merely a sitting figure, the face partly overshadowed by a helmet, one hand supporting the chin, the other resting on the thigh. But after looking at it a little while, the spectator ceases to think of it as a marble statue ; it comes to life, and you see that the princely figure is brooding over some great design, which, when he has arranged in his own mind, the world will be fain to execute for him. No such grandeur and majesty have elsewhere been put into human shape. It is all a miracle — the deep repose, and the deep life within it. It is as much a miracle to have achieved this as to make a statue that would rise up and walk. The face, when one gazes earnestly into it, beneath the shadow of its helmet, is seen to be calmly sombre — a mood which, I think, is generally that of the rulers of man- kind, except in moments of vivid action.” Opposite the altar is a statue of the Madonna and Child, also by Michael Angelo . Two statues, St. Cosimo and St. Damian, by pupils of Michael Angelo. The Medici Chapel ( Cappella dei Principi ), constructed in 1604, by Matteo Nigctti , from the designs of Giovanni de’ Medici. The chapel is still unfinished, but up to the present time the family have expended nearly £880,000, and anything more magnificent than this family mausoleum it is difficult to conceive. The walls are covered with costly marbles, inlaid with precious stones — a gorgeous mosaic of the richest material. Let the visitor closely examine the arms of the principal Tuscan cities, ranged around the lower part of the building, and he will form some idea of the gigantic labour and cost of the whole. Then let him glance at the cupola, which took Benvenuto eight years to paint. The Medicean Cenotaphs are ranged round the chapel, and are “ made to match ” the costly materials on every hand. While these splendid monuments stood in their smil- ing splendour, and visitors came in to gaze and wonder, perchance to envy, in 1857, “it was thought advisable to have the coffins arranged in order. Forty-nine of the pile were lifted down, and it was then discovered that most of them had been broken open and pilfered. Such was the exhalation, however, which infected the air during the exami- nation that it caused the death of one of the men employed. The head of Cosimo I. was found entire, with the remains f2 68 FLORENCE. of his red beard, sprinkled with grey, below the chin. The skeleton of his unhappy wife, Eleanor of Toledo, had still her yellow tresses fastened by a thick golden cord ; but both coffins had been robbed of the jewels they once contained.”* Near the body of “ the father of his country,” Cosimo, on the threshold of the lower church, are the remains of Donatello, whose monuments are spread all over Florence. The Cloister on the south of the church (San Lorenzo), built after a design by Brunelleschi , is small but beautiful. Monument to Paolo Giovio, Bishop of Nocera, and historian, by Francesco di San Gallo. Adjacent is the entrance to the BIBLIOTECA (LIBRARY) LAURENZIANA. (28) The building, 3, Piazza S. Lorenzo, was designed by Michael Angelo; and the library was founded by Cosimo Yecchio. The great hall is 168 ft. long ; its fifteen coloured glass windows were designed by Giovanni da Udine. The terra-cotta floor is by Tribolo , a pupil of Sansovino. Cosimo originated the library, and it was added to considerably from time to time by Piero de’ Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, and others. It was in 1436 confiscated to the State, when the Medici were exiled from Florence. In 1496 it was purchased by the Republic. Recovered in 1500, the friars of the Monastery of S. Marco sold it to Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici (afterwards Leo X.), who took it to Rome, from whence it was restored to Florence in 1527, by Clement VII. (Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici). The Rotunda, containing the library of Anziolo Delciana, was erected in 1841, from designs by Pasquale Poccianti. It contains a marvellously rich collection of MSS., of which the most meagre list of some of its principal curiosities can only be given here. A Syriac Gospel, a.d. 556. The Medicean Virgil, the earliest extant MS., a.d. 494. The Old Testament, eleventh century. Quintus Curtius, eighteenth century. Dante’s Divina Commedia. Various valuable copies. The Decameron (1348). * “ Walks in Florence” (S. & J. Horner), vol. i p. 148. BIBLIOTECA MARUCELLIANA. 69 Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, in his own hand- writing. Dante’s letter rejecting the offer to return to Florence. A very fine collection of illuminated Choral Books, some Bibles and Testaments, and a variety of valuable literary, state, and ecclesiastical documents, which constitute the Library, only second in value and historical interest to that in the Vatican. Among its curiosities may be seen — A finger of Galileo, stolen from his tomb, and preserved in a bottle. The agreement between the Latin and Greek Churches (1439), signed by Pope Eugenius IV. and the Emperor Paleologus (suspended on the wall). The Library is open daily, 10 to 4 in winter, 8 to 2 in summer, except on festivals. Admission free. BIBLIOTECA (LIBRARY) RICCARDIANA. (27) (4 Via de’ Ginori.) At the back of the Palazzo Riccardi is the entrance to the Biblioteca (or Library) Riccardiana. Admission daily, except Sundays and holidays, 9.30 to 3 from November till April, and 7 to 1 in summer. This Library was founded about 1600 by Riccardo Riccardi, and opened to the public in 1715. In 1812 it was bought by the State for 131,000 lire. It contains 30,000 volumes and 4,000 manuscripts, especially important in works of ancient literature and Florentine history. Among 200 volumes, especially rare editions, may be mentioned a Virgil, illustrated with miniatures by Benozzo Gozzoli (1420—1498), manuscript of Pliny the younger, tenth century; manuscript, in French, of the history of Venice to 1275. Dante illustrated by Sandro Botticelli , and manu- scripts by Dante , Petrarch , Machiavelli , Galileo , Savonarola , Cellini , &c. BIBLIOTECA (LIBRARY) MARUCELLIANA. (29) (45 Via Cavour.) Open from 9 to 3, and from 6 to 9 evening in winter, except festivals ; in summer 9 to 5. This library was founded by the Abbe Francesco Marucelli, in Rome, 1703, and brought to Florence by his brother Alessandro in 1754. Tt contains about 70 FLORENCE. 150,000 volumes, some of which are rare, 1,500 valuable manuscripts, and a choice collection of engravings. A special section contains works relating to art and industry, open to the public in the evening. Catalogues will be found in the library. S. AMBROGIO. (4a) (Piazza S. Ambrogio.) A very old church, modernly restored. Besides pictures of the School of Spinello Aretino in the second and third chapels on the right, there are two works of great merit, viz., the Altar-piece by Mino da Fiesole (1481) and the Fresco of Cosimo Rosselli (1486), depicting a procession of the Fete Dieu, in which many portraits of eminent persons of the end of the fifteenth century are introduced. This fresco is considered to be Cosimo’s masterpiece. To the left in the Choir is a Taber- nacle by Leonardo del Tasso , beneath which the artist and many of his family are buried. S. MARIA MADDALENA DEI PAZZI. (3a) (Via di Pinti.) The cloisters in front of the church were the work of Giuliano da Sangallo , and contained valuable paintings by Lorenzo di Credit Ridolfo Ghirlandaio , and Cosimo Rosselli , now in the Louvre, or in the Ufiizi collection. In the second chapel on the left is a splendid Coronation of the Virgin, by Cosimo Rosselli , framed in a Tabernacle worthy of the picture. In contrast to this perfection of the Renaissance style are the showily decorated chapel of the high altar by Ferri , and the altar-piece by Luca Giordano. In the sacristy is a Madonna and Child, by Cosimo Rosselli. In the adjacent Via della Colonna is the entrance to the Chapter House of the Convent of S. Maria Madda- lena de Pazzi, where is exhibited daily from 10 to 4 (admission 25 cents, Sundays free) the grand Fresco, by Perugino , Christ on the Cross. This superb work is the most important of Perugino in Florence, and gave to Raphael the idea of his Crucifixion, now in the gallery of Lord Dudley. In the ancient refectory may be seen the fine fresco of the Miracle of the Loaves, one of the best compositions of Raffaellino del Garbo. CHURCH OF SS. ANNUNZTATA. 71 PIAZZA DELL’ ANNUNZIATA. In the centre equestrian statue of Grand Duke Ferdinand I., which was cast from cannon taken at Bone, in Africa, from the Turks, by the knights of St. Stephen. Giovanni da Bologna. Two curious fountains (1643), one on each side of the above - . . . . . . . Pietro Tacca. The arcades were designed by Brunelleschi and others. On the right of the Piazza is the — Foundling Hospital (34) (Spedale d,egli Innocenti ), built 1421, designed by Brunelleschi , and executed by his pupil, Francesco della Luna , founded by Giovanni de’ Medici, who was moved to sympathy for the “ innocents ” by an appeal of Leonardo Aretino. The oldest hospital of its kind in Europe. Frescoes in Portico, by Pocetti. In spandrels of arches, Babes in swaddling clothes, by Luca della Robbia. (Very beautiful.) Within cloister, and near entrance, a fine Annunciation, by Andrea della Robbia. In the church (of S. Maria degli Innocenti), Adoration of the Magi, Domenico Ghirlandaio. On the right side of the court is a small picture-gallery, works by Filippino Lippi , Piero di Cosimo , Domenico Ghirlandaio. On the east side of the Piazza is the entrance to the CHURCH OF SS. ANNUNZIATA. (4) In the year 1233, seven noble Florentines abandoned the world for contemplation and prayer, and were called the Servants of the Virgin (Servi di Maria). They retired for solitude to Monte Senario, not far from the city, and in 1250 one of their order founded this church, which has since been frequently altered and redecorated. The Portico, of seven arches, has three doors : that on the right leads to the Pucci Chapel, the left door to the cloisters and convent, and the centre to the church. Over this door is a mosaic of the Annunciation, by Domenico Ghirlandaio , and within it A cloister, cortile, anterior court, or atrium, which contains an arcade adorned with fine old frescoes, many of them glazed. 72 FLORENCE. The Nativity . Life and Miracles of S. Filippo ) Benizzi Visit of the Magi ■fin/ A lessio Bcildovinetti . . Andrea del Sarto . Ibid. . Franciabigio. Jacopo da Pontormo. II Rosso Fiorentino. Ciro Ferri- Gosimo Ulivelli • Ibid . Jacopo da Empoli- Piero Dandini. Simone. Bust , by his son. Baccio Bandinelli. Birth of the Virgin Marriage of the Virgin Visitation of Elizabeth to Mary . Assumption of the Virgin . Entering* the Church, which is composed of a single nave with five chapels on either side, two transepts, and a choir with a fine dome, we notice, first, the fine frescoes, paintings, and other decorations. On the ceiling of nave, Assumption Twelve Frescoes on wall Frescoes in Rotunda of Choir 1st Chapel, right, Virgin with Saints 2nd ,, Altar-piece 5th ,, Tomb of Orlando de’ Medici 6th ,, ,, Giovanni Stradano Eastern Transept, Pieta At the end of the nave, next the choir, are two monu- ments — Right, Leonata dell’ Antella Giovanni Battista Foggini. Left, Angelo Marzi — Medici . . Francesco Sang alio. The curious circular choir was designed by Leon Battista Alberti. The pyx on the high altar is in oxidised silver, by Portigiani , and is a very fine work. In the chapel behind altar — Altar-piece, Resurrection Tomb of Giovanni da Bologna Crucifixion and reliefs In the next chapel — Altar-piece, Resurrection Returning to the nave of the church — 5th Chapel (from entrance), Assumption Pietro Perugino . 4th ,, Altar-piece .... Stradano . 3rd ,, Copy of M. Angelo’s Last Judg- ment ...... Alessandro Allori. In the nave, to the left of the entrance, the last chapel, Cappella della Vergine Annunziata, is the richest of all. It Passigna.no. Giovanni da Bologna . Angelo Bronzino. SAN MARCO. 73 was built by Piero, the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent; designed by Michelozzi. The great curiosities of the chapel are — A miraculous picture of the Virgin, which, according to legend, was begun by mortal hands and finished by an angel Visitors can rarely see this work. Over the altar, Head of our Saviour . Andrea del Sarto. Crucifix, in wood . . . Giuliano da Sang alio. Infant Christ ..... Baccio Bcmdinelli The Cloisters contain frescoes by Pocetti , and the cele- brated fresco, Madonna del Sacco . . Andrea del Sarto. This is one of the finest frescoes in Florence. The Festival of the Annunciation is celebrated in this church on March 25th (see p. 3). SAN MARCO (3) (NT. side of the Piazza S. Marco) is a plain church, consisting of a nave without aisles, a square choir, with a flat ceiling. The interest of the church pales before the interest in the adjoining Convent of S. Marco, of which Savonarola was prior. Its foundation is very old (1290), but it has been almost entirely rebuilt. In the interior of the church there is, over the principal entrance, a Crucifixion on a ground of gold, by Giotto. 1st Altar, right. — Annunciation . Pietro Cavallini ., Rarely shown, however, to visitors. 4th Chapel. — Mosaic, the Madonna. Sacristy. — Statue of S. Antonio . . Portigiani . Chapel of the Holy Sacrament. — Large paintings relating figuratively to the Sacrament, by Passignano , Santi di Tito , Jacopo da Empoli. The Chapel of S. Antonino occupies the whole of the left transept, and has many memorials of the saint, who was a monk in the Monastery of S. Marco. Frescoes by Passignano , representing the lying in state and funeral of S. Antonino. Altar Painting ...... Bronzino. Marble Statues, SS. Philip and John Baptist Francavilla. Three celebrated scholars, friends of Lorenzo the Magni- ficent, are buried in this church : Politian (Poliziano), who 74 FLORENCE. towards the close of his life was a monk of the Monastery of S. Marco ; Benivieni, the poet ; and Pico della Mirandola. Tablets on the left wall of the nave mark their resting-places. Adjacent to the church is the entrance to the MU5E0 DI S. MARCO, FORMERLY A CONVENT (30). (Piazza San Marco) Open daily, 10 to 4, 1 lira. Sundays, 10 to 2, free. Some pious Dominicans established themselves here in 1493, when the original occupants (Silvestrini, of the Vallombrosian order of monks) had fallen away from their original piety. Cosimo, Pater Patrice , furnished funds for the rebuilding of the convent; the designs were by Michelozzi , and the walls were decorated by Fra Angelico. The convent was suppressed in 1867, and now forms a Museum (Museo Piorentino di S. Marco), an event which lady visitors should approve, as, when it was a monastery, they were not permitted to enter. Apart from the interest which will be felt in inspecting the wonderful frescoes of Fra Angelico as mere works of art, they may be regarded as the expression of his pure and holy faith, his devout and simple life. The pictures here represent not merely the outward scene, but the inner life of the man ; they are prayers and praises and sermons, as well as pictures. Not only is this convent associated with memorials of Pra Angelico, who was a monk here, and whose cell may be seen, but also with Fra Bartolomeo, “ a brother like-minded ” in devotion as in art, and also with Savonarola, who was Prior of the Convent, Harbinger of the Deformation, and Martyr for the Truth. Entering the cloisters from the street, we have before us the — Crucifixion (St. Dominic kneeling) Over Sacristy door, St. Peter, Martyr . Over Chapter-house, St. Dominic with scourge Over Befectory, Christ rising from the Tomb Over Guest-chamber, Dominicans welcoming Christ as a Pilgrim . Over door, The Man of Sorrows . Fra Angelico. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid . MUSEO DI S. MARCO. 75 In the Refectory, St. Dominic and his Brother supplied with Food by Angels . Sogliani. * The Crucifixion, over this fresco, is by Fra Bartolomeo. In a bad light, in a lunette over a door, is a fine work, which deserves a better place — The Walk to Emmaus .... Fra Bartolomeo. Small Refectory, The Last Supper Domenico Ghirlandaio. Chapter-house, Crucifixion, a large and well-grouped fresco .... .Fra Angelico. On the upper floor are the cells of the convent. These and the long corridor are covered with frescoes by Fra Angelico and others. Notice specially at the head of staircase, Annun- ciation, Fra Angelico. Passing along the corridor, the cells on the left hand contain works by this pious monk, too numerous to mention in detail, but all deserving attention. At the end of the corridor are the cells once occupied by Savonarola. Some interesting memorials of him may still be found here. His portrait (Fra Bartolomeo ), copy of a picture representing his martyrdom, manuscript sermons, annotated books, and the wooden crucifix, his “ aid to faith.” There has lately been inaugurated in the Museum a collection of sketches, &c., relating to Old Florence. The Library, the first public library in Italy, contains much that will interest the visitor. Manuscripts with minia- tures in cases along the middle of the room, and some fine Choral Books. The Accademia della Crusca, founded by Cosimo I. in 1582 with the object of maintaining the purity of the Italian language, holds its meetings (not open to the public) in a portion of the monastery buildings, Yia della Dogana. Like the Academie fran^aise, it has a dictionary of the national language in hand, but the work progresses more quickly, for (begun in 1843) it is already about half finished. The Society’s emblem is a flour sieve, hence the name crusca (bran), referring to its work of sifting or purifying the language. Facing the Piazza S. Marco is a College for Higher Education, containing a collection of Minerals and an 76 FLORENCE. Indian Museum. (Admission free, Wednesday and Saturday, 9-3.) Adjoining this building are the Botanical Gardens, opposite which is the English Church of the Holy Trinity, recently remodelled by Bodley ( see p. 1). Fine altar-piece by R. Spencer Stanhope. The Yia Bufalini, turning out of the Yia dei Servi, leads to THE HOSPITAL (SPEDALE) OF S. MARIA NUOVA. This, the principal hospital in Florence (in the Piazza Santa Maria Nuova), was founded in 1285 by Falco Portinari, the father of Dante's Beatrice, but the existing buildings date only from the fourteenth century. About 2,000 patients can be accommodated, and there are several private rooms for paying patients. The Hospital Church (S. Egidio) contains frescoes by Lorenzo di Bicci, and behind the altar a Madonna by Andrea della Robbia and a bronze door by Ghiberti. The Galleria di S. Maria Nuova, formerly in the house, No. 29, Piazza S. Maria Nuova, opposite the Hospital (once used by L. Ghiberti as a studio), has been bought by the Government and transferred to the Uffizi (p. 39). OR SAN MICHELE. (9) ( In the Via dei Calzaioli.) Or San Michele, which is Tuscan short for San Michele in Orto (St. Michael in the Garden), is one of the most remarkable churches in Florence. It is close to the Piazza della Signoria, in the street which leads thence to the Cathedral. Originally it was a corn exchange, but it was transformed into a church, under the auspices of the Guild of Weavers. All the guilds of Florence vied with each other to produce some work of art for the decoration of this building, and around are grouped a series of statues by the great sculptors of the best period of Italian art. Facing you as you stand in the street are the following : St. Luke ..... Giovanni da Bologna. Christ and St. Thomas . . Andrea del 1 errocchio. St. John Baptist ..... Ghiberti. OR SAN MICHELE. 77 Under a canopy, where a bronze replica of the Madonna (now in the interior) stood, are statues of — St. James . . . Nanni d ’ Antonio di Banco. St. Mark ....... Donatello. It was this statue that Michael Angelo apostrophized with the well-known words, “ Why dost thou not speak to me, Mark?” The words that Michael Angelo actually spoke to the statue are variously reported, and one author avers that he said, “ Thy countenance vouches for the truth in which thou trustedst ; tell me what is truth ? ” Lord Bacon has not recorded whether he tarried for an answer. The statue of St. George, by Donatello , has been removed (1892) to the Bargello (see p. 88), and a bronze copy sub- stituted. West Front. St. Eligius or Eloy, the patron of farriers Nanni di Banco. St. Stephen ..... Lorenzo Ghiberti. St. Matthew ... * Ghiberti and Michelozzo. There are many other statues, none of which are without signification ; they were placed here to commemorate saints who were propitious to the various trades or guilds which they represented or were supposed to represent. The upper part of the wall is adorned by large medallions in the brightly-coloured work of Luca della Robbia. Walk round the church, notice carefully the wonderful details of this curious building, and compare the effect, produced in your mind with that produced by a tour of the Colonnade of the Ufhzi. It is strange what respiration and vigour the whole statuary of Florence has ; when comparing the past with the present, one is apt to think that, as the secret of the Pyramids and Baalbec is lost, so is the life- creating power of the chisel. Entering the church, the first thing which attracts atten- tion is the high altar of Andrea Orcagna , a gorgeous work of precious stones in marble. The altar is adorned with exquisite reliefs of scenes in Gospel History. The great curiosity of the interior, however, is the Image of the Virgin, a picture which has been the instrument (it is -said) of working miracles. Who the painter of this picture really was is not generally known ; some say it was Ugolino , others Lorenzo Monaco , and others Bernardo Daddi. FLORENCE. 78. At the side altar is a group of the Holy Family, by Francesco da Sangallo , and on the north side is the Madonna and Child, by Mino da Fiesole , which formerly stood in the niche on the exterior of the building. The Dante Society (Societa Dante Alighieri, founded 1889), having purchased the palace of the Guild nf Wool- weavers (opposite the church of Or San Michele), and com- pletely restored the building, it was inaugurated in 1905 as their headquarters. The chief object of the Society is to promote the study and diffusion of the Italian language by means of Italian schools in foreign countries. PIAZZA DI 5. MARIA NOVELLA. (Near the Central Railway Station.) This Piazza was formerly chosen for festivals and games, especially on the eve of the festival of St. John, when four- horse chariot races were held. The loggia opposite the church, erected from designs by Brunelleschi in 1451, shows excellent terra-cottas by A. della Robbia. Between the Piazza and the station is the beautiful Church of 5. MARIA NOVELLA (12) (built 1278-1371), which stands on the site of a much older church, and was, next to S. Marco, the most important example of Tuscan Gothic in Florence. It was founded by the Domini- cans, and built from designs of Dominican monks, Fra Sisto and Fra Ristoro , pupils of Arnolfo. Michael Angelo called this church The Bride (La Sposa). The facade of beautiful white marble Leon Battista Alberti. Quadrant and concentric meridians . Ignazio Danti. The interior is in the form of a Latin cross, the nave and aisles being divided by columns of varying thickness and at varying distances apart. The church is 325 ft. long, 93 ft. wide, and 202 ft. from transept to transept. Over entrance door — Crucifix Giotto and Faccio Capana . To the left — The Trinity .... Masaccio. 1st Altar — Martyrdom of St. Lawrence Girolamo Macchietti . 2nd ,, Nativity . . Giovanni Battista Naldini . 3rd ,, Presentation in the Temple . . Ibid . S. MARIA NOVELLA. . 79 .RY 4th Altar — Deposition from the Cross Giovanni Battista Xaldini. 5th ,, St. Francis . . . . . Ibid. 6th ,, A Dead Child raised to Life Jacopo Ligozzi . Ascend the steps to the Rucellai Chapel The Celebrated Madonna attributed to Cimabue or Duccio of Siena . This is the picture that was carried in solemn procession from Cimabue’s studio to the church, followed by the whole population with such rejoicings that the quarter where the painter dwelt obtained the name, which it has ever since retained, of Borgo Allegri. (Lindsay’s “ Christian Art.”) Martyrdom of St. Catherine . . . Bugiardini. Strozzi Chapel. — Monument of Filippo Strozzi .... Benedetto da Maiano. Frescoes — Scenes in lives of SS. Philip and John .... . Filippino Lippi . The Choir. — Frescoes — Scenes in lives of St. John Baptist and Yirgin Mary Domenico Ghirlandaio. In the fresco representing the angel appearing to Zacha- rias, are introduced a series of portraits of literary celebrities contemporary with the artist — Marsilio Ficino, translator of Plato, dressed as a canon. Cristoforo Landino, commentator on Dante, in a red cloak. Messer Gentile, Bishop of Arezzo, turning towards spectator. Angelo Poliziano, with his hand raised. Federigo Sassetti, Andrea de’ Medici, Gian. Francesco Ridolfi, three youths to the left, Tornabuoni family, &c. The stained glass by Alessandro Azolanti , from designs by Domenico Ghirlandaio. The frescoes are masterpieces by Domenico Ghirlandaio. Stalls carved in wood by Baccio d J Agnolo. Gondi Chapel (left of Choir), or Chapel of the Crucifix, contains the celebrated crucifix by Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi having seen the crucifix by Donatello, which is now in Santa Croce, pronounced his judgment of it in a term equivalent to “ clodhopper.” The crucifix in this chapel grew out of the strife which ensued, the design being 80 FLORENCE. probably to indicate not so much what a crucifix should be as what a rival artist could do. Gaddi Chapel. — Altar-piece (Raising the Daughter of Jairus) . . . A. Bronzino. Strozzi Chapel.— Frescoes represent- ing the Last Judgment, the Glories of Paradise, Christ with Saints . Andrea Orcagna. Altar-piece (Christ, Madonna and Saints) . . . . . . Andrea Orcagna. The Pains of Hell, a la Dante Bernardo Orcagna. Sacristy. — Lavatory . . . Luca delict Robbia . Over door, Crucifix .... Masaccio. The Bull of Pope Gregory IX. (1227), confirming the Order of S. Dominic, is preserved in the Sacristy. Marble pulpit . . . . . Briggiano . The stained-glass windows in various parts of the church deserve attention. The Cloisters, the largest of which, until lately belonging to the Military School, are covered with frescoes. Those painted in terra-verde, different shades of green, are by Paolo Uccello. Others by Andrea da Firenze , Cigoli , Allori , Pocetti , &c. To the right in the Cloisters is the Spanish Chapel, so called because Cosimo I., in 1566, granted it to the numerous Spanish monks who then resided in Florence. It contains a number of frescoes of Giotto’s School, probably by Taddeo Gaddi. Mr. Ruskin devotes Nos. 4 and 5 of the “ Mornings in Florence ” to these frescoes. The Laboratory, or Farmacia, where formerly the friars of the monastery used to distil exquisite scents from flowers and aromatic spices, and the celebrated liquor tonics Alkermes , and Acqua Antisterica. Beyond it is a room which contains some fine frescoes of scenes in the life of Christ, by Spinello Aretino. S. SPIRITO (13) ( Piazza S. Spirito) is on the left bank of the Arno, one of the most attractive buildings in Florence. It was built, in 1292, by the Augustinians, and rebuilt in 1438, and again after a fire in CHURCH OF OGNISSANTI. 81 1471, from designs hy Brunelleschi. The interior is remarkably impressive. It is 315 feet long, in the form of a Latin cross, and is rich in Corinthian columns. There are no fewer than thirty-eight chapels. Chapel 1, right of entrance, Assump- tion .... P. F. Toschi. ,, 2. Pieta in marble. Copy of Michael Angelo’s group in St. Peter’s, Rome Nanni di Bccccio Bigio. „ 3. S. Niccolo (wood) . . . Sansovino. In the S. transept — - Capponi Chapel, S. Monica, Mother of S. Augustine .... Pollaiuolo. Chapel 5, Madonna Enthroned . . Filippino Lippi. „ 6. S. Bernard and the Virgin School of Perugino. The Cloisters (entrance from the Sacristy : for admission apply at the barracks in the Piazza S. Spirito. Fee to sacristan) have some frescoes not of universal interest, representing incidents in the life of S. Augustine, by Bcddi , Cocetti , Ulivelli. The second cloister has some paintings by Pocetti. The Campanile, by Baccio dJ Agnolo, was restored in 1896. Martin Luther is said to have preached in the Church of S. Spirito on his way to Rome. CHURCH OF OGNISSANTI (Or, Church of the Minorites of San Salvador) (11). (Piazza Manin.) Built 1554, restored 1627. Over principal entrance, lunette della Robbia School. In the interior, nave and transepts in the shape of a Latin cross. Two frescoes right and left of nave : right, S. Augustine in prayer, by A . Botticelli ; left, S. J erome in his cell, by Domenico Ghirlandaio. Cupola over choir . . . Giovanni da S. Giovanni. The cloisters are adorned with frescoes. Those nearest the church are by Giovanni da San Giovanni. In the refectory (entrance 32, Borg’ Ognissanti) is a Last Supper, by Domenico Ghirlandaio, and a ciborium, by Agostino di Duccio, over the entrance. Open daily, 10 to 4, 25 c. ; Sundays free. FLORENCE. 82 S. MARIA DEL CARMINE. (14) ( Piazza del Carmine.) The original Church and Convent of the Carmelites, having been partially destroyed by fire in 17*71, were rebuilt in 1781. There is not very much to interest the ordinary visitor, beyond the Brancacci Chapel in the S. transept, which is covered with frescoes by Masolino , but they are for the most part in a bad light, and have suffered from the fire of 1771. But this place was once a School of Art, and Masolino’s and Masaccio’s frescoes have given a marvellous impetus to the development of art. Among the students here were Raphael, Leonardo da Yinci, Michael Angelo, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolomeo, Perugino, Baccio Bandinelli, and others. Some of the frescoes are by Masaccio , Filippino Lippi , &c. In the Cloister and Church are buried Manetti , Masaccio , Masolino , and other celebrities. Close to S. Maria del Carmine is the American C^> °f St. James ( see p. 2). S. TRINITA. (10) [Piazza S. Trinita.) Built 1250, by JViccolo Pisano . Fagade by Buontalenti , 1570; recently restored and some old frescoes uncovered. A series of chapels belonging to old Florentine families runs round the side of the church. The Cappella de’ Sassetti, the second on the right, contains some good frescoes (restored) of scenes in the life of S. Franks, by Domenico Ghirlandaio . In the 4th chapel, a fine Annunciation, by Lorenzo Monaco. In 1884 it was decided to restore the church, and the work has been a great success. The ancient pavement and crypt have been discovered, also some frescoes by Lorenzo Monaco. S. MARIA MAGGIORE. (7a) (Via dei Cerretani.) Founded in the sixth century ; restored in the thirteenth, and again recently. Nothing remarkable in this church, except the tombs of Brunetto Latini, who was the master of Dante (1294) ; and of Salvino degli Armati, inventor of spectacles. ACCADEMIA DELLE BELLE ARTI. 83 Altogether there are about ninety churches in Flonnce , ichich may be visited , if time is unlimited and taste so incline . But those already referred to are the principal, and the rest will only be visited by those who have a special object, or an insatiable appetite for church-hunting. ACCADEMIA DELLE BELLE ARTI. (26) (Academy qf Fine Arts.) ( Via Ricasoli JSfo. 52.) The Academy, formerly the hospital of S. Matthew, is situated at the corner of the Via Ricasoli, close to the Piazza di San Marco. Founded in 1783, and frequently increased, this collection is now the most interesting in Florence, after the Uffizi and Pitti Galleries, for its paintings of the Tuscan and Umbrian Schools of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and for the celebrated David, by Michael Angelo. . Some of the most striking works are No. 166, Room 1, the Descent from the Cross; and No. 266, Room 7, the Last Judgment, both by Fra Angelico ; No. 55, Room 4, the Coronation of the Virgin, by Filippo Lippi ; No. 71, Room 5, the Baptism of Christ, by Verrocchio ; No. 57, Room 3, Pieta ; No. 53, Mount of Olives, both by Perugino ; No. 80, Room 5, Allegory of Spring, Botticelli. Catalogues (1901), 2 lire. Admission, 1 lira, daily, 10 to 4 ; Sunday* Galleria Antica e Moderna. ( The Cupola Saloon, or Tribuna di Michel Angelo.) In the centre stands the famous Statue of David by Michael Angelo , which, until 1873, stood in the Piazza della Signoria, close to the Palazzo Vecchio ( see p. 34). It is a work of marvellous beauty and of enormous proportions, and although from time to time critics have objected to this detail and that, the concurrent testimony of artists is that it is one of the finest works of the great master, especially when considering the enormous difficulties of adapting it to his purpose. The block had been spoilt in 1465, by Baccellino , and in 1501 Michael A ngelo obtained the marble and produced his masterpiece. The Saloon, which was built on purpose for the statue, contains also a collection of casts and photographs of Michael Angelo’s works. o2 FLORENCE. 84 In the vestibiile of the Cupola Saloon are four statues by Michael Angelo , removed from the Boboli Gardens (p. 99), also (unfinished) “ St. Matthew” and “ Victor Triumphing over his Vanquished Foe,” by the same master. Room I contains works of the Tuscan Schools of the 13th- 15th cen- turies. To the left of the door : 102. Madonna and Angels .... Cimabue. Giovanni Cimabue (born 1240) for three centuries bore the title of “ The Father of Modern Painting,” although the title was perhaps scarcely a correct one. His great painting, the Madonna, which may yet be*seen in the Church of Santa Maria Novella (p. 79) made him famous. He founded a school, and was honoured by having the cele- brated Giotto as one of his pupils. 103. Madonna with Angels . . . . Giotto . 116. Entombment ..... Taddeo Gaddi. 117, 126. Scenes from the Life of St. Francis . Ibid , End-wall (beyond the door) : 134. Presentation in the Temple (1342) Ambrogio Lorenzeiti. To the left of the entrance : 164. Madonna with Saints . . Luca Signorelli. End-wall : 161. Daughter of Herodias with the Head of the Baptist . . . Sandro Botticelli . 162. St. Augustine finding an Angel who wishes to drain the sea, altar-piece . Ibid. In the middle : 165. Adoration of the Magi . . Gentile da Fabriano. The painter’s masterpiece, 1423. A grand composition, yet painted as a miniature. In the middle of the room : 195. Adoration of the Shepherds (1485), Bom. Ghirlandaio A fine work. ACCADEMIA DELLE BELLE ARTI, 85 Room II. Works of the 15th- 16th centuries. To the left : 167. Madonna enthroned, with Saints . Albertinelli. 168. Christ and Saints (mostly frescoes) . Fra Bartolomeo. 172. Savonarola in the character of St. Peter Martyr .... Fra Bartolomeo . 166. Descent from the Cross . . . Fra Angelico. One of the artist’s best works. The figure of Nicodemus is the portrait of Michelozzo. Room III. Works of the 16th- 18th centuries. To the left: 196. Entry of Christ into Jerusalem . Santi cli Tito. 198. Annunciation ..... Al. Allori. 207. Adoration of the Magi . . . Cristof. Allori. 211. Baptism of Constantine . . . Rosselli. Returning to the Cupola Saloon, pass through the first door to the right into Room IY. (Room of Perugino.) To the left of the entrance : 57. Assumption of the Virgin, with SS. Michael Gualberto, Dominicus, and Bernard . Perugino. 55. Madonna with four Saints . Fra Filippo Lippi . 53. Christ on the Mount of Olives . . . Perugino. 66. (Opposite) Madonna with Angels and Saints, with predella (No. 67), Dom. Ghirlandaio. 65. Crucifixion and Mary Magdalen . Luca Signorelli. One of the master’s best works ; the monk below to the right is a portrait of the painter himself. 61. Two Angels .... Andrea del Sarto. The Perugino Room adjoins Rooms Y, YI (Botticelli Rooms). Room V. To the right of the entrance : 71. Baptism of Christ . . . Andrea Verrocchio . 73. Coronation of the Virgin, with predella (No. 74) . . . Sandro Botticelli. 86 FLORENCE. 76. Four Saints, with predella (No. 77), repre- senting scenes from their lives Andrea del Sarto. 75. Christ ....... Ibid. 80. Allegorical Representation of Spring, Sandro Botticelli. Room VI. To the right of the entrance : 98. Descent from the Cross, the design and upper half by Filippino Lippi , the lower half by Pietro Perugino . 85. Madonna Enthroned, with Six Saints Sandro Botticelli. 86. Predella with legendary scenes Fra Filippo Lippi. 88. Madonna with Six Saints . Sandro Botticelli. 91-93. Mary Magdalen, St. Jerome, and John the Baptist .... Andrea del Castagno. 94. Adoration of the Holy Child . . Lor. di Credi. 97. Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard, with a beautiful landscape . . Fra Bartolomeo , Returning to the Cupola Saloon, pass through a door to left into Room VII. (Fra Angelico’s Room.) 233-237, 252-254. Eight pictures and thirty-five panels representing scenes from the life of Christ, Peato Angelico , assisted by other painters. 266. Last Judgment . .... Fra Angelico. One of the artist’s most charming works. 270. St. Francis . . . Margheritone V Arezzo. 285-290. Scenes from the lives of Saints . Granacci. The adjoining room contains a number of cartoons (of the early Florentine School) by Fra Bartolomeo , Raphael , Lorenzo di Credi , and others. A staircase in the Vestibule to the right leads to the Modern Gallery, where are contained in seven rooms a number of paintings of no particular merit, and which, if the visitor be pressed for time, may well be omitted. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 87 Close by, in the Via degli Alfani No. 84, is the Musical College and Library ( Istituto Musicale ), containing old musical manuscripts and instruments. A visit should be made to the Florentine Mosaic Manufactory and Museo di Pietre Dure, No. 82, Via degli Alfani (adjoining the Academy), where may be seen a good exhibition of completed works, from early times to the present day. Open daily, 10 to 4 (Sundays excepted), free. The workshops are not open to the public, but those of the private manufactories may be visited on application. Within a stone’s- throw of the Academy is the CLOISTER OF THE SCALZI OR BAREFOOTED FRIARS. (Chiostro dello Scalzo), (69, Via Cavour ). An elegant court surrounded with colonnades, in which may be seen the celebrated allegorical frescoes of Andrea del Sarto and Franciabigio , representing the life of John the Baptist. Admission daily, 10 to 4, 25 c. ; Sundays free. IL BARGELLO, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM (33) (2, Via Proconsolo , opposite the Badia ). Much of the most interesting period of Florentine history centres around this building, formerly known as II Bargello. It was at one time the residence of the Podesta, or Qhief magistrate of the city, who was bound to be a noble and a Catholic. Finally it was a prison ; and if all the stories of trap-doors and dark dungeons and instruments of torture be true, if all the traces of rough masonry betokening chambers in which miserable sufferers were walled up can be identified, the horrors of this place may fully equal those of the Pozzi and Piombi of Venice. In 1869 old things passed away, and II Bargello was turned into a National Museum to exhibit the history of the development of Italian art. Admission, one lira daily, 10 to 4 ; Sundays 10 to 1, free. An excellent catalogue (3 ]ire) has been compiled (1898) by the director, Cav. I. B. Supino, but it contains no plan of the various halls. 88 FLORENCE. Entering from the Via Proconsolo, we have before us a court in which many executions took place, and which is now adorned with the arms of the Podestas. The large collection of pictures, bronzes, ivories, tapestries, statuary, coins, &c., in the upper floors, has recently been re- arranged, and an official catalogue prepared. The principal works of the great masters have been carefully and clearly labelled. Thus, a summary of the contents will be sufficient. The Ground Floor contains weapons of great value and beauty, formerly belonging to the Medici. A large cannon, in bronze, by Cosimo Cenni , 1638. Cabinets, with muskets inlaid with ivory, helmets, and shields. The Picturesque Court, with its fine colonnades and flight of steps, has its walls painted with armorial bearings, reliefs, busts, statues, &c. The staircase leads to the vestibule of the First Room, containing the chief works of Donatello , some originals, some casts — such as David with the Head of Goliath, in marble, another David, in bronze, the Marzocco Lion (of which that in the Piazza de’ Lanzi is only a copy — see p. 35), a marble statue of St. John, and the famous St. George, removed from its niche at Or San Michele (see p. 77). Second Room contains valuable tapestries and fabrics on the walls. Third Room. — The “ Carrand Collection,” bequeathed to the city by the antiquary, Carrand of Lyons, who lived many years in Florence. It consists of clocks, statues, ivories, seals, pictures, candelabra, enamels, wood-carvings, tapestries, &c., from France, Germany, Holland, Venice, Tuscany, Rome, Syria, and Arabia, Fourth Room, originally a chapel, afterwards a prison. In 1840, on the walls were found a number of frescoes, which were cleaned and restored, but have suffered greatly. They are the work of Giotto. The one on the right of the window opposite the entrance is very important owing to the fact that it contains the only portrait of Dante. In this room are choir stalls, illuminated books, and the supposed death-mask of Dante. Fifth Room, chiefly carvings in ivory, also medallions, amber, vases, &c. Sixth Room contains bronzes of the Earliest Renaissance by Verrocchio , II. Vecchietta , Ghiberti , Bertoldo , Donatello , Giambologna , Brunelleschi , &c. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 89 Seventh Room, bronzes down to a later period, including works by Benvenuto Cellini , Jacopo Sansovino , Vincenzo Danti , Giovanni da Bologna , Pietro Francavilla , and others. Returning to the Fifth Room, a door leads to the Second Floor : — First Room. — On the walls a fresco by Giottino , a Pieta by Domenico Ghirlandaio , &c., and in the centre a collection of dies. Second Room contains glazed terra-cotta works by the Della Robbia, consisting of Madonnas, Coloured Pietas, Adora- tions, Saints, &c. In the centre of the room is a fine collection of majolica and porcelain, from Urbino , Faenza , Pesa.ro, Derut a, Castel Durante , Corfaggiolo , &c. Third Room, in the Tower. This room contains a beauti- ful and interesting collection of ancient velvets, damasks, gold brocades,* &c., bequeathed to the museum by Baron Franchetti. In the Tower is also a small room containing a representation in wax of some of the appalling scenes of the plague which desolated this city about the middle of the fourteenth century, and which Boccaccio has described with such simplicity and power in the introduction of his Decameron. It is the work of a Sicilian artist, by the name of Zumbo. He must have been a man of the most gloomy and saturnine imagination, and more akin to the worm than most of us, thus to have revelled night and day in the hideous mysteries of death, corruption, and the charnel-house. It is strange how this representation haunts one. It is like a dream of the sepulchre, with its loathsome corses, with ‘ the blackening, the swelling, the bursting of the trunk, the worm, the rat, and the tarantula at work/ You breathe more freely as you step out into the open air again ; and when the bright sunshine and the crowded busy streets next meet your eye, you are ready to ask, Is this indeed a representation of reality ? Can this pure air have been laden with pestilence ? Can this gay city have ever been a city of the plague ?” — Longfellow, “ Outre Mer (The Journey into Italy).” Here are also specimens of work in wax by Santarelli. Returning to Room I, pass into the Fourth Room. — Chiefly works in marble, bas-reliefs by Verrocchio , Benedetto da Maiano , Antonio Possellino , Civitali , &c. 90 FLORENCE. Fifth Room. — Also works in marble, busts, bas-reliefs, &c., by Michael Angelo , Sansovino , Benedetto da Maiano , Luca della Robbia , Verrocchio , Antonio Rossellino , and others. From the Fourth Room, proceed on the right to the Sixth Room, containing an important collection of Seals, made since 1834, under the direction of Father Tonini. It consists of 33 Roman and more than 2,300 seals of the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, Italian and Foreign, Ecclesiastical and Civil. There is also a collection of Tuscan coins, and on the walls seventeenth-century tapestries. The National Museum is full of curiosities of great value and interest ; the visitor to Florence should by no means lose the opportunity of carefully inspecting them. ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. (31) ( Via della Colonna , 26. Palazzo della Crocetta .) This Museum, which once formed part of the Uffizi collec- tion, was removed to the Monastery of S. Onofrio, and, later, was removed to its present location. It contains a large and valuable collection of Etruscan and Egyptian relics, and on the second floor the Galleria degli Arazzi, fine speci- mens of ancient woven and embroidered stuffs, of satin, gold brocade, damask, &c. The valuable collections of Camei and Intagli bequeathed by Sir William Currie to the Uflizi in 1863, and formerly in the Hall of the Cameos ( see p. 56), have been transferred to this Museum. There are 87 antique cameos, 7 intaglios, 20 Etruscan scarabs, and 400 engraved stones, antique and modern. In the garden have been reconstructed several Etruscan Tombs of special interest. Admission daily, 10 to 4, 1 lira; Sundays, 9 to 1, free. The Ground Floor, in seventeen rooms, contains an in- teresting collection of Etruscan tombs and their contents, taken from the principal towns of Etruria ; objects found in Yetulonia, Populonia, Yolsinii, Chiusi, Luna, and Toscanella ; also cinerary urns, stilse, and cippi from the earliest days of Florence. Catalogue (1898), 3^ 1. On the First Floor to the left is The Egyptian Museum (catalogue, in the second room) in the various rooms, called the Hall of the Gods, the Hall of MUSEUMS. 91 Inscriptions, the Hall of Mummies, the Hall of Sepulchral and Domestic Objects, and the Alexandrian Hall. The collection is conveniently arranged, and well repays a visit. It contains reliefs, inscriptions, frescoes from tombs, mummies, mummy ornaments, papyri mummy cases ; vessels from Memphis and Thebes, remains of plants, fruit, eggs ; mirrors, ornaments, metal, glass, and alabaster vessels. Opposite the exit-door of the Egyptian Museum, on the First Floor to the right , is the older portion of The Etruscan Museum, containing, in twelve rooms, cinerary urns, sarcophagi, vases, bronzes, glass and gold orna- ments, iron weapons, armour, statues, statuettes, mirrors, ivory and bone objects, pottery, &c. In Room XII is the famous Francois Vase, wilfully broken in 1900, but skilfully pieced together. From Room XYI of the Etruscan Museum, con- taining Greek and Roman vases and statuettes, a staircase leads to the Second Floor, containing The Gallery of Tapestries (Galleria degli Arazzi). Catalogue (1891), 2 1. The first rooms contain ancient embroideries of the four- teenth and fifteenth centuries; velvets, damasks, and gold brocades of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Then follow the produce of the Florentine tapestry factory (Arazzi), founded in 1545, closed in 1737. Also German tapestries of the fifteenth century, several specimens of Gobelins, and some from the Netherlands. MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY. (32) (Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale.) ( Via Romance No. 19, close to the Pitti Palace , on the left of the Arno.) Open Tuesdays and Saturdays, free, 10 to 3 in winter; 10 to 4 in summer. Strangers can obtain permission other days. 1st Floor.— Scientific instruments ; Botanical Museum. Temple of Galileo (who died at Florence, 1692).— Frescoes of scenes in life of Galileo. Here are also exhibited his telescopes and other instruments. The temple is a splendid 92 FLORENCE. structure, which everyone should visit. It was inaugurated in 1841. On the 2nd Floor. — The Zoological and Botanical collec- tions are displayed in 23 rooms ; the Anatomical collection consisting chiefly of preparations in wax, by Susini , Calenzuoli , and Calamai in 12 rooms. The Museum was enriched in 1900 by a collection of savage and amphibious animals, birds, insects, and serpents admirably arranged, and presented by Captain Gastaldi. PALAZZO AND GALLERIA PITTI. (25) The Pitti Palace (so named from its having been origi- nated by Luca Pitti, the sworn foe of the Medici) was designed and commenced by Brunelleschi in 1440, and completed by Bartolomeo Ammanati in 1549. It is on the left bank of the Arno, and is surrounded by the beautiful Boboli Gardens. (See p. 99.) The building is of fine proportions, the central part being 360 feet long, 40 feet high, and the whole fagade 660 feet long. The wings were com- pleted in 1620-30, and two projecting wings were built in the eighteenth century. The Pitti Palace is the residence of the King when at Florence. At other times the Royal Apart = ments on the first floor may be visited by permit (small fee to attendant) on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, to be ob- tained at the office in the third court to the left of the middle entrance. They contain costly furniture, gold and silver plate by Benvenuto Cellini and others, some ivories, and pictures, including Botticelli’s masterpieces, “ Pallas and the Centaur,” and the “ Madonna delle Bose.” The ground floor of the Palace contains several rooms with interesting modern works of art, statues by Bartolini , historical pictures by Sabatelli and Bezzuoli. The Treasury or Silver Chamber of the Palace, on the ground floor, to the left in the second court, contains the Boyal Plate and many costly curiosities ; open 10 to 4, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, fee to attendant. Works by Benvenuto Cellini, &c. The Pitti Gallery, on the upper floor of the left wing of the Palace, contains over 500 works, and may be looked on as a continuation of the magnificent display of the Tribuna (p. 48) and other collections in the Uffizi Gallery. No PITTI PALACE. 93 collection in the world can produce so many masterpieces with so few pictures of inferior merit. It includes numerous 1. Saloon of the Iliad. 2. jj Saturn. 3. ?? Jupiter. 4. j> Mars. 5. 5 ) Apollo. 6. 5 ) Venus. 7. >> the Education of Jupiter. 8 . JJ the Stove. ‘4 9. Bath Boom. 10. Saloon of Ulysses. 11. „ • Prometheus. 12. Galleria Pocetti. 13. Corridor of the Columns 14. Saloon of Justice. 15. „ Flora. 16. ,, the Children. PLAN OF THE PICTURE GALLERY OF THE PALAZZO PITTI. examples of Andrea del Sarto , Perugino , Filippo Levi , Fra Bartolomeo , Raphael , Ghirlandaio , Botticelli, Sustermans, Guido Reni, Carlo Bold, Dosso Dossi, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, 94 FLORENCE. Tintoretto , Giorgione , Paolo Veronese , Bonifazio , Paris Bor done , Salvator Rosa , Rembrandt , Rubens , Fail Dyck , Velasquez . The Collection of Pictures, and the magnificent rooms containing them, are among the principal sights of the city. The Gallery can be approached from the Uffizi by the passage over the Ponte Vecchio (p. 54 and p. 58), or /rom the principal entrance by a hand- some new stairway on the left of the Palace, close by the guard-house. The staircase is executed from designs by Fabris , the architect of the new fagade of the Cathedral. It is in the old Florentine style, and carried out in grey stone; the ceilings are elaborately carved in walnut wood, and the walls are decorated with majolica medallions by Cantagalli. The six principal saloons are first visited, but as formerly the entrance was at the other extremity, and the gallery was first entered by the Saloon of Venus, the numbers of the pictures as enumerated below are now given in the reverse order. The plan on p. 93, rooms numbered from 1 to 16, and commencing with the Saloon of the Iliad, corresponds with the usual order in which the Saloons are visited. Only a few of the most remarkable works will be mentioned, as the name of the painter and the subject of each picture are marked on the frame in each room for the convenience of visitors. The pictures are very crowded, and badly hung ; and no order of schools is maintained. Several changes have lately (1907) been made in the arrangement of the pictures, notably in the Saloons of Prometheus and of Justice (pp. 97 and 98). Open Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, except on fete days and festivals, 10 to 4 ; admission, 1 lira ; Sunday, 9 to 1, free. Catalogue (1902 in French) 2 lire 50 c. Umbrellas or sticks left at the Pitti Gallery can be conveyed to the exit of the Uffizi Gallery (or vice versa) ^ fee, 25 c. Facing the head of the staircase in the Second Vestibule, with a magnificent fountain basin of porphyry, we find 153. Battle ....... Salvator Rosa. 51. Descent from the Cross .... Cigoli. Saloon of the Iliad. Ceiling Frescoes, by Luigi Sabatelli , represent the story of the Iliad. In the centre of the room, Marble statue, Charity by Bartolini . PITTI PALACE. 95 vf1}5. The Concert 188. Salvator Rosa, by vr 1 9-1, 225. Assumptions i^2Q 8. Madonna Enthroned 30. Madonna . 243. Philip IY. of Spain Masterpiece of Giorgione. Himself. Del Sarto. Fra Bartolomeo. Parmigianino . Velasquez. Saloon of Saturn. Ceiling, painted by Pietro da Cortona , represents a hero being led by Mars and Prudence to be crowned. 59. and 61. Portraits of Madeleine Strozzi and tidier husband, Angelo Doni .... Raphael. ljrl. Madonna della Sedia ..... Ibid. One of the m^st popular and well-known works of art. >>52. Death of Abel . d53. s Head of an Angel 158. Cardinal Dovizi da Bibbiena /T64. Entombment Jc6§. Madonna del Baldacchino . 167. Dance of Apollo and the Muses 171. Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami >72. Dispute of the Holy Trinity 174. Vision of Ezekiel Sehiavone. Correggio. (Qy. copy) Raphael. Pietro Perugino. Raphael. Giulio Romano. Raphael. . Andrea del Sarto. Raphael. A marvellous work. 178. Madonna del Granduca .... Ibid. Considered by many to be the finest picture in the whole collection. Painted by Raphael when twenty-one years old. .179. Martyrdom of St. Agatha . . Sebastiano del Piombo. 235. Holy Family A work of great power. Rubens. Saloon of Jupiter. Ceiling, painted by Pietro da Cortona , depicts Cosimo I. presented to Jupiter by Hercules and Fortune. >?n the centre of room Marble Statue, Victory (1867) . . . Consani. 18. La Bella di Tiziano ..... Titian. Vl 13. The Three Fates . . School of Michael Angelo. 123. Madonna in Glory ; Saints . . . Andrea del Sarto. L-J24. Annunciation , , , , , . Ibid . 96 FLORENCE. 125. St. Mark . 139. Holy Family 140. Portrait . i/141. Nymphs Surprised 245. La Donna Veleta 272. John the Baptist (restored) Fra Bartolomeo . School of Rubens. . L. da Vinci. Rubens. « Raphael. Bel Sarto. Saloon of Mars. Ceiling, painted by Pietro da Cortona , represents Mars giving victory to the Medici. 81. Holy Family Andrea del Sarto. 2. Portrait of Cardinal Giulio Bentivoglio . Van Dyck. \86. Peace and War ...... Rubens. 89. Bepose in Egypt *"$0. Ecce Homo 92. Portrait of a Young Man \94. Madonna dell’ Impannata 96. Judith (with the head of Holofernes) 99. S. Sebastian ... I Bonifazio or Bordone. . Cigoli. . Titian. Raphael. Bronzino. . Guercino. Saloon of Apollo. (Sa 7 a di Apollo.) Ceiling, painted by Ciro Ferri (principally) and Pietro da Cortona , represents Cosimo I. presented to Apollo by Glory and Virtue. . 38. Christ at Emmaus . 40. Pope Leo X. and Cardinals 41. Hospitality of S. Julien . 54. Pietro Aretino M)8. Descent from tBe Cross . 64. Descent from the Cross . ^67. Magdalene Saloon of Venus. (Sal a di Venere.) . Palma Vecchio. Raphael. Cristofano Allori. Titian. Andrea del Sarto. Fra Bartolomeo. . . Titian. So named from the ceiling, painted by Pietro da Cortona , in which Cosimo I. is represented as a youth under the special patronage of Minerva, who rescues him from Venus. The room might more appropriately have been called the Hall of Minerva, or even of Cosimo I, PITTI PALACE. 97 1 r 20. Adam and Eve 3. Venus, Cupid, and Vulcan ^ 4, 15. Sea Pieces . 9, 14. Landscapes 1 11. Martyrdom of S. Catherine . 16. Portrait of Old Man 1^47. Betrothal of S. Catherine (copy) 79. Pope Julius II. (copies) Albert Diircr. Tintoretto. . Salvator Rosa. Rubens. Francesco Bassano. Raphael. Titian. Raphael Saloon of the Education of Jupiter. Ceiling painted by Catani. 256. Holy Family ..... Fra Bartolomeo. 266. Martyrdom of St. Andrew .... Carlo Bold. 269. Presentation in the Temple . . Paolo Veronese. 270. Clgopatra Guido Reni. Saloon of the Stove. (Sala della Stufa.) Ceilings Matter, Rossetti. 1 rescoes ....... Pietro da Cortona. Four small antique statues in marble. Two exquisite statues, Cain and Abel .... Dupre. Returning to Room VII and traversing a passage, on the left is a small Bath Room, tastefully fitted up with pavement of modern Florentine mosaic. The ceiling is supported by four columns of verde antico , the figures by Pampaloni. The four small statues of Nereids are by Giovanni Insom and Salvatore Bongiovanni. Saloon of Ulysses. Ceiling painted by Gaspero Martellini. 201. Hippolito de’ Medici Titian • 289. Madonna appearing to St. Francis . . Ligozzi . 297. Temptation of St. Anthony. . . Salvator Rosa. 306, 312. Landscape and Marine .... Ibid. 324. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. . . Rubens. Saloon of Prometheus. Ceiling, painted by Giuseppe Colignon , depicts the story of Prometheus. H 98 FLORENCE. Magnificent Mosaic Table, valued at <£30,000. for Exhibition of 1851 (London), but not sent. Intended 343. 347. 354. 1 , 357 . 365. 388. Madonna and Child Holy Family Holy Family Madonna and Child Madonna and Child Death of Lucretia Fra Filippo Lippi. Ibid . . Lorenzo di Credi. Botticelli. . Albertinelli. Fra Filippo Lippi. Galleria Pocetti. Ceiling painted by Bernardino Pocetti. Two Tables of oriental alabaster, and one of malachite. j/Bust of Napoleon I. . . . . . Canova. 483. Madonna and Child ..... Polidoro. 484. Madonna della Misericordia . . Mario Vecellio. 487. Repose on the Flight into Egypt . . Dosso Dossi. 495. Portrait of Tommaso Mosti .... Titian. Also a number of miniature portraits. Returning to the Prometheus Saloon, we proceed along a somewhat narrow Paintings by Perugino and ornaments, &c. Corridor. others. Miniatures, ivory Saloon of Justice. Ceiling painted by Fedi. 393. Temptation of St. Jerome .... Vasari. 397. St. John the Evangelist .... Carlo Bold. 405. Christ in the Temple .... Bonifazio. 408. Oliver Cromwell ..... Sir Peter Lely. Painted for Ferdinand II., Duke of Tuscany, who so admired the energy and zeal of Cromwell in suppressing the outrages upon the Waldensian Protestants, that he begged him to sit for his portrait, which is considered a faithful one. \ ,-'409. Anton Francesco . . . Sebastiano del Piombo. Celebrated Statue of Yenus (centre of room) . Canova .. Saloon of Flora. Ceiling painted by Morini. In the centre, statue of Yenus, by Canova. I / BOBOLI GARDENS. 99 416, 421, 436, 441. Landscapes 423. Adoration of Shepherds . 430. Madonna and Child 437. Repose in Egypt . Gaspard Poussin . Titian . Cigoli . Van Dyck. Saloon of the Children. Frescoes by Marini . 453. Peace Burning Weapons, and Landscape 465. Landscape .... 470. Landscape, with Diogenes 473. Landscape ..... 474. Landscape (Diana and Acteon) 480. Nymph and Satyr ... The BOBOLI GARDENS adjoin the Pitti Palace, open to the public from noon to sunset on Sundays and Thursdays ; on Tuesdays — when the Royal Family are not in Florence — by order obtainable at the Pitti Palace ( see p. 92). They were laid out by II Tribolo in 1550, under Cosimo I. Beautiful walks, charming foliage, curious statuary abound on every hand ; but there is nothing in the gardens to compare with the exquisite views to be obtained from its rising ground. All Florence lies before the gaze, and its principal buildings are seen to great advantage. The Grotto is adorned with — Paris Bearing Helen Away . . Vincenzo de Rossi . Apollo and Ceres ..... Bandinelli . Among other curiosities in the grounds are — Egyptian Obelisk ; Basin of Neptune ; Statue of Abundance . . . Giov. Bologna . Four Statues by Michael Angelo have lately been removed from the Gardens to the Cupola Saloon of the Academy of Fine Arts {see p. 84). A charming little lake, with island in the centre, in which is a colossal statue, Oceanus, by Giov. Bologna. Waterfowl, fountains, flowers, everything to charm the eye. Royal Mews, with collection of ancient State carriages ; permit at the palace. h2 . Salvator Rosa. , Ruysdael. . Salvator Rosa. Poelemburg. Domenichino . A. Carracci. 100 FLORENCE. PALAZZO CORSINI. (23) ( Lung 7 Arno Corsini , No. 10.) Admission Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, 10 to 3. Catalogue 2 lire. Entrance, 7, Via Parione, at the back. Attendants expect fees. The most interesting features in this palace are the magnificent staircase and collection of pictures. In the ante-room of the Picture Gallery are two grisaille pictures by Andrea del Sarto , and in the First room works by Giordano , Sustermans , and Dosso Dossi. The Second room contains several battle-pieces by Borgognone , and sea-pieces by Salvator Rosa . Portraits and Madonnas prevail. Third room, by Carlo Bold, Tintoretto , Giulio Romano, Andrea del Sarto, Rembrandt. Fourth room, pictures by Botticelli, F. Lippi, G. Bold, &c. Fifth room, No. 200, a fine Madonna and Saints, by Raffaello del Garbo. Sixth room, by C. Bold, Salvator Rosa, Memling, Botticelli, Guido, Andrea del Sarto. Seventh and Eighth rooms, badly lighted, contain princi- pally copies from Salvator Rosa, Raphael, Michael Angelo, &c. Rooms Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen have nothing remarkable, except perhaps No. 292, in Room Ten, “ View of the Piazza della Signoria of 1498, with Burning of Savonarola.” PALAZZO RICCARDI. (19) (At the junction of Via Cavour and the Via dd Ginori.) The magnificent edifice, the ancient palace of the Medici, was designed by Michelozzi, under Cosimo, Pater Patriot (1430). The windows, or frames, on the ground floor, were designed by Michael Angelo. In this palace Lorenzo the Magnificent was born (1449), and Evangelista Torricelli, the inventor of the barometer died (1647); here Charles VIII. of France resided ; here Duke Alexander was assassinated by his cousin, Lorenzino, and there is a statue of the Duke in the court. Admission 9 to 3, 50 c. — 1 fr. ; Sundays and holidays, 9 to 1. The rooms of the palace are PALAZZO TORRIGIANI. 101 very handsome, and the library (open 9 to 3 ; 7 to 1 in summer) is very extensive. One of the principal curiosities of the place is the Chapel of the Medici (entrance at present from the Piazza Madonna), in which are some admirable frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli , representing the Visit of the Wise Men, in which are introduced portraits of the Medici family. The palace now belongs to the Government, and is occu- pied by the Prefecture. The Grande Salle has a fine ceiling by Luca Giordano , and some of the rooms have splendid tapestries. PALAZZO STROZZI. (24) ( Piazza Strozzi , Via Tornabuoni .) Begun, 1489, by Benedetto da Majano. The founder of this magnificent palace was Filippo Strozzi, the celebrated adversary of the Medici, a wealthy merchant, who, like merchants of our own day, was pleased to vie with princes. The structure is a fine specimen of old Florentine architecture. The fagades are handsome ; and the court, con- structed by Cronaca , who continued the building which Benedetto da Majano only lived to commence, is superb. Notice particularly the iron-work used for linkholders and other purposes of illumination. The rooms are elegant, and there was formerly a small but good gallery of pictures, busts of the Strozzi family, and some sculpture; but these works of art have been sold and removed to Berlin, and the- palace is now closed to the public. Prince Strozzi died in 1907, and bequeathed the palace, together with its archives, to the State, but owing to the Italian law the gift would involve the disbursement to the family of a very large sum, so that it is doubtful whether the State will, under the circumstances, accept the legacy. PALAZZO TORRIGIANI. ( Piazza dd Mozzi — left bank of Arno.) The palace itself is uninteresting, but the collection of pictures is remarkably good. Open in winter only. Admis- sion by special permission. As catalogues are to be found in the rooms for the use of visitors, we shall not enumerate the 102 FLORENCE. various valuable works here, but merely call attention specially to — Triumph of David . . Benozzo Gozzoli , or Pessellino. Head of an Old Man .... Luca Signorelli. History of Esther (three pictures) . . . Botticelli. Procession of Argonauts ..... Uccello. Resurrection ....... Tintoretto. Samaritan Woman ...... Garofalo. There are several rooms, occupied by the family, contain- ing Dutch and German paintings, not always accessible. Permission to visit the beautiful Gardens may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Opposite the Palazzo Torrigiani is the PALAZZO BARDINI. (Piazza dei Mozzi.) The palace is a very handsome building, containing a large collection of metal work, furniture, sculptures, pottery, windows from Pistoja, arches from the Duomo of Fiesole, and pictures of no particular value or interest. There is no catalogue, as most of the objects are for sale, and thus the contents of the rooms are frequently changed. The attendant expects a fee of 1 lira. The old Torre del Gallo ( see p. 109), also belonging to Signor Bardini, can be visited on presentation of an order obtained at the Palazzo. GALLERIA PISANI. x • At No. 3, Piazza Manin, there is a fine Gallery of several thousand pictures by modern Italian artists. Open daily, free. The rooms are spacious, well lighted, and visitors are con- ducted over the building by the obliging Secretary and his assistants. In the centre of the Piazza Manin is a statue (erected 1889) to Daniele Manin, who was appointed Dictator of Yenice in 1849. HOUSES OF CELEBRATED MEN. House of Michael Angelo, Casa Buonarroti, Via Ghibellina, No. 64, near S. Croce, and nearly opposite the Pagliano Theatre. HOUSES OF CELEBRATED MEN. 103 Michael Angelo Buonarroti was born in 1475. He learned the elements of design in the school of Domenico Ghirlandaio. Every facility was given to his genius by Lorenzo de’ Medici, in whose house he resided for three years. The story of his life need not be recapitulated here ; his works, which are among the greatest treasures of Florence, itself the great treasury of Art, will be reviewed with double pleasure by those who see in them the man Michael Angelo, and are familiar with the strange times in which he lived and the strange persons amongst whom he dwelt. Florence has few things to equal the statue of David (p. 83) ; Rome has few things to equal the Sistine Chapel. He died on the 18th February, 1564, at the age of eighty- nine ; and his last words were, “ In your passage through this life never forget the sufferings of Jesus Christ. ” He was buried in the Church of the Apostoli in Rome, but his body was afterwards transferred to S. Croce (p. 61). A descendant of Michael Angelo commenced a memorial collection in this house in which the great artist dwelt ; and when the last of the Buonarroti died, in 1858, he bequeathed it to the city. (Galleria Buonarroti.) Open from 10 to 4, daily (1 lira), except Sundays and holidays ; Mondays and Thursdays, free. Catalogue 50 c. Here is to be seen the study of Michael Angelo, his crutch, his slippers, the drawings and models of some of his great works, many portraits, busts, and statues of the artist, by his pupils, scenes from his eventful life, family portraits, and a collection of autograph letters and poems. It will be pleasant, in this house, to recall one of his well-known poems, translated by Wordsworth — TO THE SUPREME BEING. The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed, If Thou the spirit give by which I pray ; My unassisted heart is barren clay, Which of its native self can nothing feed ; Of good and pious works Thou art the seed, Which quickens only where Thou say’st it may. Unless Thou show to us Thine own true way, No man can find it. Father, Thou must lead. Do Thou, then, breathe those thoughts into my mind By which such virtue may in me be bred That in Thy holy footsteps I may tread ; The fetters of my tongue do Thou unbind, That I might have the power to sing of Thee And sound Thy praises everlastingly. 104 FLORENCE. An Historical and Topographical Museum has recently (May, 1909) been inaugurated in this building. It consists of fourteen rooms, and contains a fine collection of pictures, photographs and prints of Florence and its festivals and ceremonies, dating from the 1 3th century down to the present time. Benvenuto Cellini’s House (Casa di Ricceri) is in tho Yia della Pergola (No. 59), close to the house of Lorenzo Ghiberti (see p. 105). Cellini was born in Florence in 1500, and died there February 13th, 1571. His life was full of incidents and adventure, and his biography, written by him- self, is well worth reading. It gives a good account of the times in which he lived, although all that relates to himself is told with overweening self-esteem. There is a good translation into English, published in Bohn’s Standard Editions. He was a musician, engraver, jeweller, goldsmith, artist. He engraved stamps for the mint, coins, and medals — - many specimens of which will be seen in Florence — and he executed the marvellous Perseus, which has made him immortal. Dante’s House (Casa di Dante), Yia Dante Alighieri, No. 2, near Piazza della Signoria. There is a quaint, old- fashioned door to the house, only a small portion of which is now to be seen, with an inscription to the effect that here, Dante Alighieri was born (see p. 31). He was married in the Church of S. Martino, close by. The house may be visited on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11 to 3, free. The municipality of Florence have caused excavations to be made in the adjoining property with a view to definitely deciding as to the authenticity of the house, and have rebuilt and enlarged it into an edifice worthy of the memory of the Divine Poet. Galileo’s House, Yia Costa S. Giorgio, No. 13, close to the Belvidere fortification, overlooking the Boboli Gardens. Galileo Galilei was born at Pisa in 1564, and died at Arcetri (where Mil- ton visited him) in 1642 (see p. 110). His body rests in Santa Croce (p. 62). In Florence (1632) he published his celebrated “ Dialogues on the Ptolemaic and Copernican Systems of the World” — a work considered in those dark days so dreadful that it was publicly burnt, and he was compelled, under awful penalties, to recant. This he did by swearing, “ With a sincere HOUSES OE CELEBRATED MEN. 105 heart and unfeigned faith I abjure, curse, and detest the said errors ” — namely, that the earth moves round the sun, &c, “ I swear that for the future I will never say or assert any- thing verbally or in writing which may give rise to a similar suspicion against me,” &c. And rising from his knees, he burned round to a friend, and whispered, “ Eppur si muove ! ” (It moves for all that!) Ghiberti’s House is at 29, Via BufFalini. Lorenzo Ghiberti was born in Florence in 1378; died 1455. His life makes an epoch in the life of art ; and the gates of the Baptistery (pi. 25) were the most wonderful works that had been produced up to that time ; perhaps they have never since been eclipsed. His sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons were dis- tinguished artists. House of Machiavelli (Casa Campigli), Yia dei Guicciardini, No. 16. Machiavelli was born in Florence 1469, and died there 1527. He was, at twenty-nine, secretary of the “ Ten,” which had the management of foreign affairs. From his tact, erudition, and talent, he was chosen to act as ambassador to Rome, France, Germany, and other Courts. The story of his life is intimately associated with one of the most interesting periods of Florentine history. He published many works in Florence, including the famous and much-dis- cussed book, The Prince ; and his great work, the History of Florence , will live as long as the name of Italy ( see p. 61). House of Amerigo Vespucci, Borgo Ognissanti. Ves- pucci was born in Florence, March 9th, 1451. He was associated with the wealthy Florentine house of Juanota Bernardi, at Seville, and his voyages, under the auspices of the King of Castille and the King of Portugal, resulted in great successes. He claimed to be the discoverer of America, and certain it is that he gave to that great country its name. He died in Spain, February, 1512. Near the Ponte alle Grazie, and on the left bank of the Arno, is the Piazza Demidoff, in which is one of the most remarkable modern monuments in Florence. It is the Monu = ment to Prince Nicholas Demidoff (erected 1870), who founded a charitable institution in the Church of S. Niccold 106 FLORENCE. close by, and who devoted himself with such unflagging enthusiasm to the poor of Florence that he was universally beloved and revered. He was also a devout lover of the Fine Arts, and Florence owes much to his munificence in this respect. The monument was designed and partly executed by Bartolini , and is considered his finest work. He died, however, before completing it, and the work was then carried on by Romanelli , one of his pupils. The principal group represents Prince Nicholas embracing his son Prince Anatole (by whom the monument was erected), while Gratitude offers a crown: Facing the Arno. — On left, Mercy, symbolised by a Nurse nourishing a child. On right, Siberia holding Plutus on its arms, symbolising the wealth in mines possessed by the Demidoffs in that country. Facing the Yia dei Renai. — On left, Festive Muse crowned. On right, the Muse of Arts. The idea of these groups is Benevolence ; Wealth, by which he was able to gratify Benevo- lence ; and the love he bore to Truth, as expressed in Art. On the basement of the monument are three very beautiful bas-reliefs. Facing the Ponte alle Grazie — Prince Nicholas dying, and listening to prayers and hymns of the poor who had flocked around his dwelling to pray for his recovery. Facing the Yia dei Renai — Arms of the Demidoff family. The third bas-relief (whether in good taste or not is open to question) represents Prince Anatole pledging himself before the autho- rities of the city to continue the public works of usefulness originated by his father. House of Browning 1 . — At No. 9, Piazza San Felice dwelt Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in the Casa Guidi, where an inscription, by Tommccseo , over the door, speaks of Elizabeth Browning as having drawn “ a ring of gold” round England and Italy. On the balcony of Casa Guidi, Robert Browning composed his great poem, The Biny and the Book ; here (cf. Cas a uidi windows) Mrs. Browning witnessed the insurrection which united Tuscany to Italy, and here she died. Niccolo Tommaseo’s House is at 20, Lung^ Arno delle Grazie. Here he lived for 14 years and died (1874). ENVIRONS OF FLORENCE. 107 3n an& Hrounb Florence. There is a variety of walks and drives in and around Florence, which the visitor who is not pressed for time should not fail to take. But this should not be done at the sacrifice of the im- portant places described in the foregoing pages. We cannot describe all the environs as minutely as we have done the city, but call attention to places in and around Florence to be visited according to the taste and inclination of the tourist and the time at his disposal. The Old Protestant Cemetery, in the Piazza Donatello, near the modern Piazza d’Azeglio. The old cemetery, kept up at the expense of the Swiss community, has been closed, a new and spacious burial-ground having been provided in another and more suitable locality outside the Porta Romana (see p. 110). But the old cemetery will yet have its frequenters ; for within its precincts lie interred the remains of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mrs. Trollope, Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Theodore Parker, and others, whose names, we are rightly told, “ will not be the less remem- bered by posterity because they are associated with the City of Flowers.” “ There is a garden at Florence still bright with roses, and with pansies 1 for thought ’ — still sweet and fragrant with the white blossoms of the jessamine — a garden sacred to the English dead in the liberated City of Flowers. Not for the first time do we bear testimony to the graceful sympathy and the refined good nature with which the municipality of Florence, now that Italy is free, has dealt with the English. For sanitary reasons the graveyard of our countrymen had to be closed ; but the Florentine ‘ vestrymen 5 have guarded the remains of the English from all desecration, and have set the place apart as holy ground. We have in Florence a Campo Santo, a Santa Croce of our own. The old words come back, 4 Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy ! ’ ” The Cascine is the Hyde Park, the Champs Elysees, of Florence. It is two miles long, and a delightful resort in the intervals of sight-seeing. Military bands play on Sundays and festivals ; there is a casino and cafe restaurant, both well managed. Tramways to and from the Piazza di S. Maria Novella. On Ascension Day (May 20) the people troop here 108 FLORENCE. to catcli grasshoppers and so secure good luck throughout the year. The insects are imprisoned in tiny cages and fed on lettuce-leaves. At the extreme point where the waters of the Mugnone fall into the Arno, is the Monument to the Rajah of Kolopore. On the night of 1st Dec., 1870, the spot on which it stands was the scene of a strange and lugu- brious ceremony. Numbers of officials in the picturesque costume of Hindustan were busily occupied in preparing the funeral pyre of their Prince. Rajah Ram Chuttraputti, Maharajah of Kolapore, a young man of twenty years, the last of his line, ruling over one of the most extensive of the provinces of India, when returning from England to his native country, attended by his numerous suite, died, after a short illness, at one of the Florence hotels. In a space amidst the fine oaks and beeches of the park they prepared the wood with large quantities of camphor and odorous ointments ; and upon this pile, robed in the most splendid of his vestments, and surrounded by his most precious and favourite personal ornaments, they laid the body of the Rajah. The pile was lit about midnight, and continued to burn until near daylight ; the venerable Brahmin, meanwhile, who directed the cere- monies, offering his prayers, and with the other faithful servants, at times, making the groves echo with their lamenta- tions. At break of day the ashes of the Prince were collected with the greatest care into a golden vase, which now rests in the temple erected to his memory on the banks of the Punch- gunga, but all the remaining ashes were thrown into the Arno. In June, 1874, on the same spot, was unveiled a monument, singularly beautiful and appropriate, designed by Major Charles Mailt , it. A., who was an intimate friend of the late Rajah. The style is thoroughly Indian ; the canopy and base are of a grey local stone, beautifully carved; the columns are of bronze, elaborately chased"^ and the whole, including the bust, which is the central object, forms a most complete and successful specimen of polychromatic decorative art. La Nazione , refer- ring to this, says: “Under the cupola, which is beautifully painted with gold and azure, stands the bust of the Prince, Rajah Ram Chuttraputti, modelled in marble by the sculptor Fuller , and painted in encaustic with the happiest success. We do not know what the pedants will say ; but this first attempt at polychrome sculpture on a public monument is so well suited to the character of the edifice, and to the place where it is erected, that the most capricious and prejudiced ENVIRONS OF FLORENCE. 109 criticism must yield to unanimous approbation.” The bust is about one-half larger than life, and represents the Rajah, a young man of regular features, though of a dark complexion, dressed in a black gold-embroidered vest, which is almost com- pletely covered by a rich gold and white burnous. On his head is a magnificent turban of crimson and gold stuff, from which depend a number of precious stones and jewels. The cost of the work was borne by the British Government of India in conjunction with the family of the deceased. The monument was formally delivered over to the guardianship of the commune of Florence by Major Mant on behalf of his Government and of the Princess Ahilya Ranee, mother of the late Rajah. It was received by Signor Peruzzi, the Syndic of Florence. Villa and Museo Stibbert.— A few minutes’ walk from the electric tram terminus of the- Barriera del Ponte Rosso, in the suburb of Montughi, is the Villa Stibbert, containing one of the finest collections of armour in Europe, as well as a variety of valuable antique curios, bequeathed by the late Mr. Frederick Stibbert (d. 1906) by his will dated May, 1905, to the English Government, but renounced by them in favour of the City of Florence. It was opened on 26th April, 1909, and is well worth visiting. The testator left a sum of 800,000 lire, producing an annual sum of 24,000 lire for the upkeep of the villa and museum. Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 to 4, 1 lira ; Sunday, 9 to 1, free. San Miniato — A short (half-hour) and delightful excur- sion. The views are very extensive ; fortifications, burial- ground ; the Church of S. Miniato al Monte, with an elegant mosaic facade, is one of the finest examples of the twelfth- century Tuscan- Romanesque style — interior very handsome — contains works by Luca del 1 a Robbia , Spinello Aretino , and other good artists. The Convent grounds are now a cemetery, in which Henry Labouchere (d. 1912) and his wife lie buried. Perhaps, from an artistic point of view, the most interesting suburb of Florence. The Torre del Gallo (also called Galileo’s Tower), lately restored by Signor Bardini, is approached by a fine avenue of trees as far as Poggio Imperiale, or by the road to S. Miniato —the platform is “ Where Galileo sat at night to take The vision of the stars,” 110 FLORENCE. : and made some of his great discoveries; and the Villa of Galileo (Arcetri), where he spent the closing years of his life, and was visited by Milton (see p. 104) Close by is S. Salvatore, called by Michael Angelo “ la bella villanella.” Viale dei Colli. — A charming promenade, affording splendid views of Florence, is via the new road and boulevards, Viale dei Colli (constructed since 1868), leaving the city by the Porta Romana, and returning by the Porta Niccolo near the Ponte Sospeso, where the road ends. This costly construction is over three miles in length, and is bordered with trees interspersed with delightful gardens and pleasure-grounds. It is divided into three sections, bearing the names of Michael Angelo, Galileo, and Machia- velli. S. Miniato and the Tower of Galileo can be visited during this enjoyable excursion. Poggio a Cajano. — Tram from the Via dei Pecori in \\ hours. This villa, built for Lorenzo the Mag- nificent, is now a royal possession. It is surrounded by a fine old park, and commands a beautiful view of the Tuscan mountains. It contains some frescoes by Andrea del Sarto and Alessandro Allori. Permission to visit the Villa may be obtained at the Pitti Palace. La Certosa, di Val d’Ema, is reached by electric tramway from the Mercato Nuovo via the Piazza del Duomo, passing on the way the Allori Protestant Cemetery. At the confluence of the Ema with the Greve, the Certosa rises like a mediaeval fortress. The monastery, founded 1341, contains a few inmates only. The Church has a fine pavement, and the choir stalls are beautifully carved ; the cloisters contain stained glass by Giovanni da> Udine. Open 9 to 5 ; admission, two persons, 50 c. each. Bellosguardo and Monte Oliveto may both be visited for the lovely view that can be obtained over the beautiful Valley of Florence, Prato, Pistoja, &c. The excursion may be continued to Lastra and Ponte a Signa, about eight miles by tramway, returning to Florence by railway, the other side of the river. Villa Reale di Petraia. — Another royal residence, originally belonging to Brunelleschi (fourteenth century). The ENVIRONS OF FLORENCE. Ill interior was adorned with paintings by Andrea del Sarto and Daniele da Volterra. The gardens, containing some fine old oaks, and a fine fountain by Tribolo , were a favourite resort of Victor Emmanuel. To the west of this property is the Villa Reale di Castello, another royal residence, with a beautiful park, lovely gardens, statues by Giovanni da Bologna. Both villas may be visited by permits from the Pitti Palace. They can be reached from the railway station of Castello, or by the Sesto Tramway. Doccia. — By rail or tramway to Sesto, about four and a half miles from Florence, a visit can be paid to the great majolica manufactory of Doccia (the property of the Marchese Ginori) where excellent copies of Della Robbia work are produced. The model village of the workpeople is worthy of notice. Sesto is the best starting-point for an ascent of Monte- Morello (3,066 feet). Fiesole. — An electric tramway runs from the Piazza del Duomo 3 times every hour ; the distance is about five miles* and the fare 50 c. Everyone who can should visit the ruins of this old Etruscan city, rich in historical associations, works of art, and objects of general interest. The views are charming,, and the drive is very pleasant, passing a Dominican Monastery* where Fra Angelico painted before he came to Florence, and the Villa Mozzi, where Lorenzo de’ Medici dwelt. The church of 5. Domenico di Fiesole contains a Madonna with Saints by Fra Angelico , and a fine altar-piece by L. di Credi. Some admirable frescoes have recently been discovered in a disused chapel belonging to the Convent of St. Girolamo. Near the church is the Badia di Fiesole, a monastery erected by Brunelleschi in 1462, a remarkable pile of buildings. It is now a school. The road passes the villa where Walter Savage Landor lived, and died in 1864. Fiesole is now a town of no importance. On the west side of the spacious piazza are the Bishop’s Palace and a large Seminary. Opposite the Bishop’s Palace is the plain Cathedral, begun in 1028, finished 1201, and recently restored. Near the Campanile is the entrance to the Scavi. (Admission, 50 c., including Museum in the Palazzo Pretorio.)^ The excavations begun in 1809 have brought to light many 112 FLORENCE. important ruins, including a Roman theatre in which the galleries and seats are well preserved, and portions of the orchestra and stage are easily traced. Roman baths with hot-air pipes and furnace in fair preservation, also a portion of the Etruscan city-wall, have been disclosed. The Museum in the Palazzo Pretoric ( see p. Ill) contains Etruscan weapons, implements, statuettes, the bronze figure of a wolf, pieces of sculpture from the theatre, and specimens of various nails used in the ancient buildings. To the east of Fiesole may be visited the Castello di Vincigliata, commanding an uninterrupted panorama. Open Sundays and Thursdays, small fee. Permit to be obtained at 8 Via del Giglio. The Castle dates from 1031, and during succeeding centuries saw many masters, until the eighteenth, when it was deserted and fell into ruins. It was rebuilt in 1857-60 by the late Mr. Temple Leader, who formed therein a valu- able collection of antiquities, and is now the property of Lord Westbury. In the courtyard are Roman sarcophagi, mediaeval carvings, Etruscan objects, and works by Luca and Andrea Robbia (fifteenth century). In the Chapel is an Annunciation by Giovanni della Robbia. There is a large collection of arms in the guard-room ; the kitchens contain ancient domestic utensils ; and the dwelling-rooms are fur- nished in the mediaeval style. Villa Palmieri. — Following the Yiale Regina Vittoria '(so named in honour of the late Queen Victoria) and passing the Barriera delle Cure, the Villa Palmieri is reached. This is the traditional palace in which Boccacio’s Decameron tales were told to beguile the time while the great plague of 1348 was raging. It was purchased by the Earl of Crawford in 1874, and Queen Victoria resided there as the guest of the Countess in 1888 and 1893. The property has lately been acquired by a New York gentleman. Careggi. — Carriage from Piazza Cavour. A pleasant drive to visit the Villa Medici, where Cosimo de’ Medici died in 1464 and Lorenzo de’ Medici in 1492. The property was sold in 1848 to Mr. Sloane, who spent about £40,000 in improve- ments, and has since been sold to M. Segre, of whom permission can be obtained to visit the villa. ENVIRONS OF FLORENCE. 113 The Villa Salviati, on the Bologna Road, formerly the property of the Borghese family, and at one time inhabited by Mario and Grisi. Vallombrosa (Hotel, see Appendix). — This celebrated (suppressed) monastery can now be easily visited in one day with the aid of the cable railway from St. Ellero to Saltino, and it is a day well spent. From the Florence railway stations the journey via Pontassieve to St. Ellero (16 miles) occupies about an hour. The Cable railway from St. Ellero to Saltino is 5 miles in length (about 1 hour), with a gradient of 1 in 5, and the line passes through groves of oaks and fertile districts to the Pratomagno range, where fine views are obtained of the Valley of the Arno, and the villages of Pontassieve, Domini, and Filliberti. From Saltino a carriage drive of half an hour through a dense grove of firs leads to Vallombrosa. The Convent was founded in 1015, and suppressed in 1866. The present buildings, erected in 1637, are now occupied by the Royal Institute of Forestry. A few monks reside there, who attend to the meteorological observatory and celebrate service in the church. Several large modern hotels afford good accommodation to visitors. Milton visited this place, and greatly loved it, and speaks of it thus in “ Paradise Lost ” : — “ Thick as autumnal Reaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, whose Etrurian shades High, over-arched embower.” Mrs. Browning — to whom this valley was a holy place — speaking of Milton, says — “ He sang of Adam’s Paradise, and smiled, Remembering Vallombrosa.” Here also Dante loved to walk, “ Here sublime The mountains live in holy families, And the slow pine woods ever climb. and climb, Half up their breasts, just stagger as they seize Some grey crag, drop back with it many a time, And struggle blindly down the precipice.” The suppressed monastery of San Salvi (take the Rovezzano tram and stop at the Madonnone) is to the left of the route to Rovezzano. Open daily, 10 to 1, 25 c. ; 114 FLORENCE. Sundays, 10 to 2, free. Here, in the refectory, is the Cenacolo of Andrea del Sarto. For good walkers, fatiguing but charming excursions may be made to the monasteries of Camaldoli and La Verna, occupying in this way three or four days from allombrosa, but they are more conveniently visited by carriage from either Bibbiena or Poppi on the Arezzo-Stia railway ( see The Traveller’s Handbook for Northern Italy). INDEX. Academy of Fine Arts PAGE .. 83 Accademia delle Belle Arti .. 83 Accademia della Crusca .. 75 A1 fresco Theatres 4 American Church 2, 82 Consuls 1 Physicians 2 Apartments, Furnished 7 Apollino . . 49 Areetri . . 110 Archaeological Museum .. 90 Archives of Tuscany . . .. 58 Arno, River and Talley 13, 113 Authorised Gruides .. 10 Badia di Fiesole .. Ill Baiotistery .. 23 Bargello, 11 ( see National Museum.) Bellosguardo . . 13 , no Biblioteca Laurenziana .. 68 Marucelliana .. 69 Nazionale .. 58 Riccardiana .. 69 Bigallo 28, 29 Boarding-houses 7 Boboli (hardens 92, 99 Booksellers 3 Botanical Hardens . . .. 76 Bridges .. 14 Cabs 6 CamaldoH .. 114 Campanile . . 19 Careggi .. 112 Cascine . . 107 Castello di Yincigliata 111. 112 Cathedral (see huomo) Cathedral Museum (see Museums.) Cemetery, Protestant 107 , no Cenacolo di Fuligno . . .. 58 of A. del Sarto .. 114 PAGE Certosa, La 110 Chemists 2 'Churches — S. Ambrogio 70 SS. Annunziata . 71 S. Croce 59 S. Domenico di Fiesole . . 111 S. Egidio 76 S. Lorenzf 65 S. Marco 73 S. Maria degli Innocenti 71 S. Maria del Carmine . . 82 S. Maria del Fiore (Cathedral) 15 S. Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi . . 70 S. Maria Maggiore 82 S. Maria Novella 78 S. Miniato al Monte 109 S. Spirito S. Trinita 80 82 Ognissanti 81 Or San Michele . . 76 Climate 6 Cloisters — San Lorenzo 68 SS. Annunziata . . 73 S. Croce 61 S. Maria Novella 80 S. Spirito . . 81 Scalzi 87 Clubs 3 College for Higher Education 75 Concerts 107 Consuls 1 Convent of Camaldoli 114 Convent of La V erna 111 Convent of S. Grirolamo 111 Convent of S. Maria Madda- lena de’ Pazzi 70 Convent of S. Marco (see Museums) . 116 INDEX. PAGE Convent of S. Onofiio (see Cenacolo di Fuligno). Convent of S. Salvi . . . . 113 Cook’s Office . . . . 1 „ Conducted Excursions 8 Dancing Faun, The . . .. 49 Dante, House of .. 104 Monument 59, 61 Society .. 78 Stone of . . .. 30 Story of . . .. 3cr Dentists 2 Doccia . . .. Ill Domini . . 113 Duomo, The . . .. 15 Egyptian Museum . . 90 English Chemists 2 Churches 1,76 Club 3 Hospital 3 Newspaper 3 Nurses 2 Physicians 2 Environs of Florence .. 107 Etruscan Museum .. 91 Festivals, &c. 3 Festival of St. J ohn . . 4, 23, 27 Fiesolane Hills . . 13 Fiesole .. Ill Filliberti .. 113 Florence, Plan of facing title Foundling Hospital . . .. 71 Fountain of Neptune. . . . 35 Furnished Apartments 7 Galleria Antica e Moderna (see Accademia, &c.) Buonarroti . . . . 103 degli Arazzi .. 90,91 degli Uffizi . . . . 39 di S. Maria Nuova . . 76 Feroni (see Cenacolo di Fuligno). Pisani v. 102 Pitti .. 92 G alileo, House of 104 Temple of .. 91 Tower of . . .. 109 Villa of . , .. 110 PAGE Grates of Florence 14, 107, 110 Giotto, The Story of . . 22 Giotto’s Tower (see Campanile) Grinder, The . . . . 49 Guides, Authorised .. .. 10 Historical Notice . . . . 11 Hospitals . . • . . . ; 3 Hospital of S. Maria Nuova . . 76 Hotels, see Appendix. Houses of Celebrated Men — Amerigo Vespucci . . 105 Benvenuto Cellini . . 104 Browning. . . . . . 106 Dante . . . . ..104 Galileo . . . . . . 104 Ghiberti . . . . . . 105 Machiavelli . . . . 105 Michael Angelo . . 102 Tommaseo, Niccolo . . 106 II Bargello (see National Museum). In and around Florence . . 107 Indian Museum . . . . 76 Istituto Musicale . . . . 87 Laboratory (S. Maria Novella) 80 Lastra . . . . . . 110 Laurentian Library . . . . 68 Library, Circulating . . . . 3 „ Musical . . . . 87 Library of S. Marco . . . . 75 Loggia de’ Lanzi . . . . 34 Loggia del Bigallo . . . . 28 Loggia del Mercato Nuovo .. 5 Lung’ Arno, The . . . . 14 Marucelliana Library . . 69 Marzocco, The . . . . 35 Mint, The . . . . . . 39 Misericordia . . . . . . 28 Monte Morello .. 13,111 Oliveto .. .. ..110 Montughi . . . . 109 Monuments and Tombs — Alfieri .. .. .. 61 Arnolfo di Cambio . . 18 Brunelleschi, Filippo .. 17 Bruno, Leonardo . . 62 Cherubini . . . . 62 Dante , . . , 59, 61 INDEX. 117 PAGE Monuments, &e. ( continued ) — Demidoff, Prince Nicholas 105 Galileo . . . . . . 62 Garibaldi . . . . 61 Giotto . . . . . . 17 Kolapore, Rajah of . . 108 Lanzi, Luigi . . . . 61 Machiavelli . . . . 61 Marzuppini, Carlo . . 62 Medici, L. and G. 66 Michael Angelo Buonar- roti . . . . 60 Rossini, G. . . 62 Verdi, Giuseppe . . .. 63 Mosaic^Manufactory . . . . 87 Mugnone River . . . . 108 Museums — Archaeological . . . . 90 Cathedral . . . . 27 Etruscan and Egyptian 90, 9 1 Fiesole (Palazzo Pretorio) 111 Historical and Topo- graphical . . . . 104 Indian .. .. .. 76 National . . . . . . 87 Science and Natural History . . . . 91 S. Marco . . . . 74 Santa Maria del Eiore . . 27 Stibbert .109 Musical College and Library. . 87 National Museum . . . . 87 Library . . . . 58 Nurses and Nursing Homes . . 2 Omnibuses . . . . . . ’ 6 Opera del Duomo . . . . 27 Palazzo Bardini . . . . 102 Corsini .. .. .. 100 della Crocetta . . . . 90 dell’ Antelia . . . . 59 Pitti 92 Pretorio (Fiesole) .. Ill Riccardi . , . . . . 100 Strozzi . . . . . . 101 Torrigiani .. 15,101 Uguccioni . . . . 35 Vecchio . . . . . . 35 Pensions . . . . . . 7 Physicians . , . , , , 2 Piazza del Battistero . . PAGE .. 27 Cavour .. 112 del Duomo 5, 27, 30, 110, 111 della Signoria ..5,32 della Stazione .. 5 dell’ Annunziata. . 71 de’ Mozzi 14, 101, 102 Demidoff .. 105 Donatello .. 107 Manin . . . ; .. 102 S. Ambrogio .. 70 S. Croce .. 59 S. John . . .. 27 S. Marco .. 74 S. Maria Novella 78, 107 Pillar of St. Zenobius 30 Pitti Gallery and Palace .. 92 Plan of Florence facing title Plan of Pitti Gallery . . .. 98 Plan of Uffizi Gallery .. 42 Poggio a Cajano .. no Pontassieve .. 113 Ponte alle Grazie . . 14 Ponte a Signa .. 110 Ponte Santa Trinit a . . 14 Ponte Sospeso .. 110 Ponte V ecchio .. 14 Post Office 1 Presbyterian Church . . 2 Principal Sights, and Times for seeing them. . .. 8-10 Protestant Cemetery . . 107, 110 Railway Stations 1 Reading Rooms 3 Restaurants 7 Riccardiana Library . . .. 69 Rovezzano .. 113 St. Ellero .. 113 Saltino .. 113 San Giorgio . . .. 13 San Miniato . . 13, 109, 110 San Salvatore . . .. 110 San Salvi .. 113 Sasso di Dante .. 30 Savonarola, Story of .. 33 Scalzi, Cloister of .. 87 Scavi, The .. Ill Scottish Church 2 Sesto . . . . • . . .. Ill Sights of Florence, etc, , . 8-10 118 INDEX. PAGE Situation of Florence . . 13 Special Memoranda . . . . 6 Spedale di S. Maria Nuova .. 76 Statues . . 30, 35, 59, 77, 83, 102 Suspension Bridge .. .. 14 Tapestries, Gallery of 90, 91 Telegraph Office . . . . 1 Temple of Galileo . . . . 91 Theatres . . . • • • 4 Torre del Gallo 102, 109, 110 Tower of Galileo (see Torre del Gallo) Tramways and Omnibuses . . 4-6 Tribune (Uffizi) .. .. 48 Tuscany, Archives of . . 58 Uffizi, Colonnade .. .. 38 Galleria degli . . . . 39 Plan of Gallery . . . . 42 Yallombrosa . . Hills of . . Verna, La Venus de’ Medici Viale dei Colli Via dei Pecori . . . Via delle Morte Villa Medici (Careggi) Mozzi of Galileo Palmieri Poggio a Cajano Beale di Castello Beale di Petraia . . Salviati . . Stibbert . . Vincigliata, Castle of. . Wrestlers, The PAGE . 113 . 13 . 114 . 48 . 110 5, 110 . 30 . 112 111 . 110 . 112 . no . ni . no . 113 . 109 . 112 .. 49 HOTELS IN FLORENCE. 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Niessen, C.V.O., 6, Domhof. ROME— Signor Comm. Dott. Carlo Grillo, 9, Via del Parlamento. Also the various Tourist Offices of THOS. COOK & SON. FRANCIS H. DENT, General Manager. AD VER TISEMENTS. 5 jl Real Travelling Comfort. }! JAEGER is known to be one of the greatest safeguards of Health. It has been tried by Travellers and Explorers in all parts of the j* *1 world, and there are several big Expeditions— Arctic, Antarctic 1 1 * and Tropical — now carrying it. In addition to its value for Health, it also has the important features of Charm, Comfort and Economy. Jj OUTFITS FOR ALL CLIMATES. Everything — Underwear, Outerwear, Nightwear, for Men, Women and Children, also Bedding- can be had ^gajin “Jaeger,” as well as the various “ sundries ” required by Travellers. ! The t “ Dee.” A very light coat (3 lbs.) for Spring and Summer, in light shower-proof cloths in a variety of colours. For convenience in carrying, it can be rolled into a bundle 12 inches by 17 inches, from 52/6 to 67/6 To be seen at the JAEGER DEPOTS : / 26, Regent St., W. 456, Strand, W.C. 30, Sloane St., S.IV. 102, Kensington High St., W. 115, Victoria St., S.IV. 85 & 86, Cheapside, E.C. i In addition to the Jaeger Catalogue, | Ladies should make a point of asking |j yi for the new list of Knitted Coats L specially suitable for Winter Sports, etc. || 1 Gentlemen should ask for that of Travel- j| ling Coats, etc., all of which are fully !| illustrated ; also Dr. Jaeger’s “ Health Ij Culture.’* Copies are sent post free. || || And at the Jaeger agent in every important town. Address on application. J| la II 6 AD VER TISEMENTS. VISITORS TO LOND ON. TRANTER’S 6, 7, 8 & 9, Bridg-e water Square, Barbican, Bondon. MOST CENTRAL EOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE. Two minutes’ walk Aldersgate Street Station, Metropolitan Railway (in con- nection with all Tubes and Main Lines) ; seven minutes’ walk from St. Paul’s Cathedral, General Post Office, Guildhall, and City Temple ; ten minutes’ walk from John Wesley’s Chapel, Bank of England, and Mansion House. Inclusive Charge— Bedrooms, Single, 2/6 to 3/6 ; Double, Electric Light throughout. Night Porter. Absolutely quiet and home- like. Established 1859. Write for “ HOW TO SPEND A WEEK IN LONDON,” with Tariff and Testimonials, post free. Telephone— No. 959 Central. Telegraphic Address — “ Healthiest, London.” Scotch Proprietorship — WM. LOSSOCK, Resident Proprietor. HOTEL (UNLICENSED), 4/6 to 6/6. Breakfast or Tea, 1/3 to 2/0. ADVEB. TISEMENTS. 7 TURKISH BATHS, NEVILLES. The CHARING CROSS BATHS Entrance: NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE. Pronounced to be the Finest in Europe. ELECTRIC BATHS, LIGHT BATHS, DOUCHES, MASSAGE. T HESE Baths stand on what was formerly part of the grounds of Northum- berland House, have occupied three years in 'building, and involved an expenditure of nearly £30,000. The Baths comprise a suite of rooms, having a floor space of about 12,000 square feet for gentlemen, with a smaller set m a separate contiguous building for the use of the ladies. The cooling rooms, which are surmounted by a lofty dome designed to permit free circulation of air and to ensure perfect ventilation, are fitted in the most luxurious manner. The whole of the decorations of both cooling and hot rooms have been designed by eminent authorities, while the heating and ventilation o± the hot chambers are brought to a state of perfection by the use of the system first introduced by the proprietors. ALSO THE LONDON BRIDGE BATHS, 7 & 8, Railway Approach, London Bridge Station. ALDGATE BATHS, GENTLEMEN 44, High Street, Whitechapel. LADIES: — 7, Commercial Road, E. EDGWARE ROAD BATHS, 16, Harrow Road, Paddington. WOOL EXCHANGE BATHS, Coleman Street, and Basinghall Street. BROAD STREET BATHS, Broad Street House, New Broad St., City, E.C. ROYAL YORK BATHS, 54, York Terrace, Marylebone Road, N.W. Hairdressing Rooms attached , and Chiropodists in attendance at all the Baths. At Charing Cross are also Light Baths, Electric Baths, Aix and Vichy Douches and Vibro Massage. GENTLEMEN’S FUR-LINED OVERCOATS READY FOR IMMEDIATE WEAR At prices ranging from Suitable for Travelling, for Motoring, for Driving, &c., also Carriage and Motor Rugs ( extra large) in great variety, made in Black Goat, Wallaby, Japanese Fox, and many other Furs. TAXIDERMY. To Sportsmen and Travellers Abroad. Special Department for Curing and Preserving Raw Skins intended for mounting into Animals or for use as Rugs, &c. The International Fur Store 163 & 165, REGENT STREET. Continental Ibotels 9 AIX-LES-BAINS. HOTELS SPLENDIDE, ROYAL AND EXCELSIOR. Patronised by Royalties. Entirely new. Most modern comfort. Unique position. Large Gardens. Tennis. Garage. Special terms for families. Apply to — L. ROSSIGNOLI, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. AIX-LES-BAINS (Savoie). HOTEL DE RUSSIE ET DES COLONIES. Pension de famille. Renowned cooking. Very moderate terms. Near the Thermal Establishment and the Casinos. Large Park, open all the year round. Electric Light. Central Heating. Motors meet all trains. Telephone : 212. J. C. GUERRIER, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons , Series R, accepted. AIX-LES-BAINS. GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE AND SAVOY. This first-class Hotel, 150 rooms and sitting-rooms, beautifully situated near the Baths and immediately opposite the Gardens of the Casinos, commands splendid views of the Lake and Mountains. Care and Cuisine first-class, with open-air Restaurant in the Garden of the Hotel. Complete sanitary arrangements. Highly recommended. Lift. Electric Light throughout. Bathrooms. POLLI ET FRANZ ETTI, Proprietors. Cook’s Coupons accepted. AIX-LES-BAINS. THE REGINA GRAND HOTEL, BERNASCON. Elevated position, near Baths and Casinos. Entirely first class, opened in 1900. Latest comfort and luxury. 250 rooms with hot and cold running water. 50 private baths. Splendid view of the Lake and the Valley. Large shady Gardens and Dining Terraces. Garages for 50 cars. Branch House, the handsome “ VILLA REGINA,” opened in 1907, and standing in its own magnificent grounds. BERNASCON, Proprietor. ALGIERS. (MUSTAPI1A SUPfiRIEUR.) GRAND HOTEL CONTINENTAL. (Hotel de Luxe.) Largest and most up-to-date Hotel. 200 Rooms. 50 Bathrooms. Most of the bedrooms fitted with running hot and cold water. Full information sent on application to — MM. KIRSCH & EDLICH, Proprietors. Cook’s Coupons accepted. 10 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. ALGIERS. HOTEL ST. GEORGE (Mustapha Superieur). Hotel de Luxe. 200 Rooms. 50 Bathrooms. 2 Lifts. Large Garden. Electric Tram connection with the Town every ten minutes. Golf Links. Cook's Coupons accepted . AMSTERDAM. BRACK’S DOELEN HOTEL. -Rphuilt and refurnished 1911-1912. Now 120 Bedrooms. 50 Bathrooms. Running hot ^ fold water in bedrooms. Patronised by the highest class of English, American and Continental Families. Own Auto-Garage. Auto-’bus Central Station. Moderate charges. Telegrams: “ Doelenhotel, Amsterdam. Cook's (W) Coupons accepted. ANTWERP. HOTEL CAFE RESTAURANT MILLE COLON NES. AVENUE DE KEYSER II (Central Station), ANTWERP. Telephone : 1289 Comfortable Rooms. Moderate Terms. Bathrooms. Dinners at fixed prices and a carte. Suppers after Theatres, etc. Shipping ^^{T^ion. AAT rrWTrpP , tjotttTi fJAFfl RESTAURANT NEPTUNE, ANTWERP. Branch Establishment- ACHILLE DUYVER-CLAUS, Proprietor. Motor-’bus to Boat and Station. Lift. Central Heating. Cook's Coupons, Series R, accepted. ARCACHON. GRAND HOTEL DES PINS ET CONTINENTAL. RECENTLY BUILT. Most comfortable and modern. Sanitary installations. Open all the year round. prices. Steam Heating. Gaiden. Terrace. e ^’b.'fEKRAS, Managing Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. ASSISI. MODERN HOTEL “ GIOTTO ” AND PENSION BELLE VUE. Npw miiet first-class modern Family Hotel. Electric Light. Steam Heated. Baths. Large and lovely Garden. It is situated near the Church of St. Francis, and commands one of the finest panoramic views of Italy. < Service of very good carriages for Perugia, etc. Automobiles for Excursions. TERMS MODERATE. Cook's Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 11 AUGSBURG (Bavaria). 150 000 inhabitants, formerly free Imperial town. One of the most interesting German towns Many mediaeval constructions (Renaissance) in good condition. Old historical points of Interest. Numerous souvenirs of Luther and the time of the Reformation. Royal Picture rVlIerv of old masters (Holbein, Burgkmair, Rubens, etc. . Famous monuments of past anl' modern ttoes Picllresque street scenes. Magnificent old fountains. Fine Parks. Highly developed industries. GOOD THEATRE, CONCERTS, Etc. GOOD HOTELS. Information and Guide Books by the Verkehrs (Travel) Bureau of the FREMDEN- VERKEHRS-VEREIN AUGSBURG, BUREAU-HOUSE II. Representatives of the AMTL. BAYER REISEBURO, formerly Schenk er (Agency of Thos. Cook & Son). & Co. AXENSTEIN (Lake or Four Cantons), Switzerland. GRAND HOTEL. PARK HOTEL. Strictlv FIRST-CLASS. 2,350 feet above sea-level. Most prominent situation above Brunnen, commanding magnificent panorama. New buildings. Large and beautiful Park of world-wide renown. Open May — October. ~ . . , „ “ Axenstein is the most beautiful spot I met with on my journey throug Q^ 1 ^ Z y I 1 ^^ I 7 Best English and American Society. Spring terms from 9 frs. in Grand, aDd from 7 frs. in Park Hotel. Divine Service in All Saints’ Church, Axenstein Park. Heating throughout. Auto-Garage. Terminus of the Electric Railway BRUNNEN AXENSTEIN. Cook’s Coupons accepted. BADEN-BADEN. HOLLAND HOTEL. First-class Establishment. Up-to-date, with a large park. Next Kurhaus and Baths. Apartments and Single Rooms with Private Bath and Toilette. Cook’s Coupons accepted. THREE BALE. KINGS HOTEL. FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. The leading and most aristocratic Hotel at Bale, with universal reputation. Situated in the only quiet and magnificent position on the Rhine. Rooms and suites with Pnvate Bath. English Church Service held in summer in the Hotel. Auto-Garage. Three minutes from Station in Auto-’bus. t a Managed by the Proprietor, L. A. BOSbi. Cook’s Coupons accepted. BALE. BAR-ROOM (BUFFET) OF THE CENTRAL STATION. Highly praised. Restauration a la carte and at fixed prices at any hour Table d’hote (luncheon), 12 to 2 o’clock p.m., 3 frs. Table d’hote (dinner), 7 to 10 oclock p.m., 4 frs. First-class cookery, choicest wines, etc. Tourist-baskets (containing dinner provisions) prepared in advance. prmoT Cook’s Coupons accepted. 12 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. BALE. GRAND HOTEL AND HOTEL EULER. Very first-class House, Family opposite the Central Railway Station, in best and quietest position. Electric Light. Central Heating. Lift. Rooms with Bathrooms attached. Entirely renovated. Open-air French Restaurant. Garden. OSCAR MICHEL, new Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. BALEARIC ISLANDS. Palma de Mallorca. GRAND HOTEL AND VILLA VICTORIA. Facing the Sea. First class. Open all the year. Mild climate. Finest Winter Resort. Steamer from Marseilles every Wednesday, from Barcelona five times a week. Cook's Coupons accepted. BARCELONA. GRAND HOTEL FALCON. Beautiful Situation in the Rambla. First-class Hotel, entirely renewed during summer, 1911. All meals served at separate tables. New Drawing Room for ladies, with Piano. Steam Heating throughout. Otis Electric Lift. Modern sanitary arrangements. Bathrooms on every floor. Moderate terms. Interpreters and Special Omnibuses of the Hotel at every train. Cook's Coupons , Series R, accepted. BARCELONA. PALACE HOTEL. All modern comfort. 150 Private Bathrooms. Pension from 10 Pesetas. Private Bathrooms and Pension 12.50. Telegraphic Address : — “ PALHOTEL.” Cook's Coupons accepted. V. SAURI, Manager. BAVENO (Lago Maggiore). PALACE GRAND HOTEL. (On the Main Simplon Line between Milan and Geneva.) This magnificent Hotel occupies an enchanting position on the lake, commanding a view of the Borromean Islands and Mountains. 100 Rooms and Salons. Equipped with every requirement of modern hotels of the first class. Lift. Central Heating. Large Lounge and Veranda. Orchestra. Private rooms with toilettes en suite. Tennis Court. Garage with pit. Hotel Omnibus meets all trains and steamers. Motor Boat for excursions. Tariff strictly moderate. Open March to November. __ _ __ ,,, ~ . PAUL B0RG0, Proprietor (also of the Grand Hotel Pavilion, Cannes). Cook’s Coupons accepted . CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 13 BELLAGIO (Lake of Como). HOTEL GRAND BRETAGNE. This first-class Hotel is most splendidly situated in the Italian Lake district. Every modern comfort. Central Heating. Large Garden and Park. Electric Light. Lift. Lawn Tennis. Camera Obscura. Water from the St. Primo Springs. AUGUSTUS MEYER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. BELLAGIO. SPLENDIDE HOTEL. Modern and select first-class Hotel. Most charmingly situated, overlooking the Lake. Beautiful and shady Gardens with Restaurant. Private Bathrooms fitted with the very latest sanitary arrangements. Moderate terms. Cook's Coupons accepted. WHERE TO STAY IN BERLIN. ALEXANDRA HOTEL. MITTELSTRASSE 16 and 17. A modern Family Hotel, three minutes’ walk from Central Railway Station — Friedrich- strasse. Next street to Unter den Linden (Berlin’s most fashionable thoroughfare). Near all sights, Royal Castle, Theatres, English Embassy, and the beautiful Thiergarten Park. Most convenient for visitors to Berlin, whether on business or on pleasure. 100 Front and Garden Rooms from 2s. 6d. upwards. What English Guests say : — “ Central, Homelike, Comfortable, Moderate.” C. H. MULLER, Managing Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. BERLIN. GRAND HOTEL BELLEVUE, and THIERG ARTEN HOTEL (Hotel du Parc). FIRST CLASS. POTSDAMER PLATZ. Much enlarged by New Building, provided with every modern comfort. Lift, Eleotric Light, Smoking and Reading-room. . Small and large Apartments in connection with Bath and Toilette. Opposite Potsdam Station. Not far from Anhalt Station. In proximate vicinity of the Thiergarten. Cook's Coupons accepted. BERLIN. HOTEL ATLANTIC DER KAISER HOF, WILHELMSPLATZ. Rooms from fi Marks upwards ; with Bath and Toilette from 12 Marks. Cook's Coupons accepted. 14 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. BERLIN. HOTEL COBURG. Facing Friedrichstrasse Station. Is a quiet and home-like Family Hotel in the most central position of Berlin. It contains 120 Rooms with all up-to-date comfort, a hot and cold water supply, telephone, etc. 30 Rooms have Private Bath and Toilette attached. Splendid Public Rooms and Hall. First-class Restaurant. Pension. Prices are moderate. ERNST REISSIG. BIARRITZ. HOTEL VICTORIA & DE LA GRAND PLAGE. FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Finest situation, opposite the British Club and the Grand Casino. 150 Rooms and Salons. Central Hot Water Heating. Running Water, Bathrooms. Electric Light. Lift. Large Garden and Veranda. Tennis. Near Golf Links. J. FOURNEAU, Biarritz. Cook's Coupons accepted. BOLOGNA (Italy). THE GRAND HOTEL, BAGLIONI. VIA INDIPENDENZA, 6—8. The new Leading and “ Up-to-date ” Hotel of Bologna. 120 Rooms and Suites. 30 Private Bath and Toilette Rooms. Splendid Hall. Modern Garage for eight cars on premises. Three Auto-’buses at Railway Station. Every comfort. Cables: “Hotel Baglioni, Bologna.” GUIDO BAGLIONI, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. BOLOGNA. HOTEL BRUN. First-rate, of old reputation, in one of the finest antique Palaces of Bologna, in the best position, and with every modern comfort. Highly recommended. Omnibus for day and night trains. Large and small Apartments. Public and Private Bathrooms. Bologna is a convenient point for visiting Ravenna, Ferrara, Modena, Parma, or for breaking the journey to Brindisi. Lift. Jennings' sanitary arrangements. Guide to Bologna forwarded free. Premises for motor-cars in the Hotel. Auto-’buses at Station. J. F. FRANK, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. BOMBAY. New Fields for ^ The City of Sport, Travel, etc. Palms and Pearls. TAJ MAHAL HOTEL, BOMBAY, INDIA. The leading Hotel in Asia. Moderate charges. Pension rates from Rs. 8 and upwards per day. Cook's Coupons (. Indian Series'). CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 15 BORDIGHERA. HOTEL CAP AMPEGLIO. UD-to-date in every respect. One of the finest spots on the Kiviera with regard to view, sheltered position and accommodation. 600 yards from the Sea on elevated groun . Further information through J. KUNZLER (Swiss). Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. BORDIGHERA. HOTEL HESPERIA. STRADA ROMANA. Splendid position. Modern comfort. Central Heating. Lift. Apartments, with adjoining Private Bathroom and Toilette. Open from 1st October to 15th May G. ALBRECHT, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. BORDIGHERA (Italy). HOTEL ROYAL. FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Hydraulic and electric Lift to secure continuous working. Situated full South, on elevated ground over “ Strada Romana,” in a most sheltered position, commanding the finest view over the town and the whole coast. All the front rooms have balconies and fi replaces. Electric Light and Central Heating throughout. Private Suites of Apartments with Bathrooms and Toilet. Large Lounge Hall. Billiard Rooms Large Terrace with Sun-box. Omnibus to all trains and, on request, also at the Frontier Station of Ventimiglia. Garage for motor-cars. Special arrangements for prolonged stay. . & For Tariffs apply to L. PALOMBI, Proprietor. BOZEN. HOTEL BRISTOL. Leading first-class Family Hotel. In best position, facing the Dolomites. In Summer fine Garden-Restaurant with daily Evening Concerts. Best French and Viennese cooking. Apartments and Single Rooms, with Bathroom and W.C. Cook’s Coupons accepted. HOTEL GREIF. Well-known House with old reputation. HOTEL KONIGr LAURENT. Dependence of the Hotels Bristol and Greif. Opened Spring, 1911. Latest up-to-date building, surrounded by magnificent parks, overlooking the Dolomites and adjoining mountains. Quite fireproof. Private Bathrooms throughout. Every comfort. Fine old Park and central Garage for the three Hotels. F. STAFFLER, Managing Pro prietor. BRIGUE (Brig), Switzerland. GRAND HOTEL COURONNE ET POSTE. First-class Hotel nearest to the Station, the Post and Telegraph Office. Carriages for the Glacier du Rhone, the Grimsel, and Simplon. Electric Light Central Heating. American Bar. Apartments with Private Baths, Toilette. Pension from 8 frs. Lift. Grand Auto-Garage free. Facing the Simplon. JOS. ESCHER, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. 16 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. BRUGES. GRAND HOTEL and GRAND HOTEL DU COMMERCE. 39 , Rue St. Jacques, 39 . ENTIRELY RENOVATED. Highly patronised by English and American Society. All modern comfort. Electric Light and Central Steam Heating in all the rooms. Apartments with Bath and Toilette. Hot and cold water supply in most of the rooms. Splendid Garden. [Automobile at every train. Auto-Garage at the Hotel. Cable and Telegraphic Address — “Grand Hotel, Bruges.’* We. C. VAN DEN BERGHE & SON, Proprietors. Cook’s Coupons accepted. lift. BRUGES (Belgium). LIFT HOTEL DE FLANDRE. Establishment of the Highest Class. Largely patronised by Royalties and the elite of English and American Society. Steam Heating and Electric Light. Splendid Winter Hall. Absolutely perfect sanitary arrangements. Suites and Apartments with Private Bath and Toilet. OTIS ELECTRIC LIFT. HOT AND COLD WATER SUPPLY IN MOST OF THE ROOMS. Auto-Garage, A.C.F., R.A.C.B., A.T.C., N.A.C., M.C.B., Aero C.F.A.C. America, Germany, Austria. Cable and Telegraphic Address — “Flandre, Bruges.” Beautiful Garden with Terrace Restaurant. LIFT. Cook’s Coupons accepted. Mm. E. H. BENSEL, Proprietress. LIFT. BRUNATE-COMO. ONE HOUR FROM MILAN. GRAND HOTEL AND MILAN RESTAURANT. 2,625 feet above sea. Funicular rail from Como every half-hour. Open all the year round. Magnificent situation. Splendid view of the Snow Mountains. 150 Rooms. Apartments with Bath. Central Heating. Lift. Large Hall with open fireplace. Ice Rink. Skating Rink. Beautiful Walks. Moderate Terms. E. TR0MPE0 & CO., Proprietors. BRUNNEN. Lake of Lucerne. GRAND HOTEL BRUNNEN. First-class Hotel. Frequented by best English, American, and Parisian families. Centre of Excursions and Sports. Recom- mended by leading medical authorities as an ideal resort for after-cure after Carlsbad, Bad Nauheim, Aix-les-Bains, &c. BRUSSELS. GROTTO OF HAN. Station:— ROCHEFORT, BELGIUM. Travellers passing through Belgium can, by stopping a few hours, easily visit the “ Grotte de Han.” According to all guide- books the Grotto of Han with its chaos, its multiform concretions, its abysses, its sub- terranean rivers, is the most enchanting and impressive in the world. An electric- lighting system, recently installed, provides indescribable fantastic effects. A line, commanding a magnificent panorama, crosses the Rochers de Faule from Rochefort to the entrance of the Grotto. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 17 BRUSSELS. HOTEL DE BELLE YUE and DE FLANDRE. First-class Hotel, in the best and healthiest situation of the town ; near the King’s Palace, overlooking the Park and the Place Royale. Every .desirable . f commodation Electric Light. Lift. Steam Heating. Apartments with Bath and Toilet. Most of the rooms with hot and cold water. Winter Garden. Auto-Garage and Pit. E. DREMEL, Proprietor. Address letters or telegrams — “ Hotel Belle Vue and de Flandre, Brussels. Cook’s Coupons accepted. BRUSSELS. THE GRAND HOTEL. Tariff for Rooms, Attendance, Light and Heating included. lailH 1U1 llGUlllO, nutViiuwxxvv, ROOMS. 1st Floor. 2nd Floor. 3rd Floor. 4th Floor. One bed, 1 person from One bed, 2 persons Two beds > > One large bed, bathroom, lavatory & w.c. ,, Two beds, lavatory, bathroom & w.c. ,, Drawing-room >> 10 frs. 13 „ 18 „ 18 „ 20 „ 25 ,, 9 frs. 11 „ 13 „ 15 „ 17 ,, 20 ,, 7 frs. 9 „ 12 ,, 15 „ 5 frs. 8 ,, 10 ,, 10 ,, Grill Room, American Bar, Railway Ticket Office, Lavatories, hot and cold water in every room. Cook’s Coupons accepted. J. CURTET, Manager. HOTEL BRUSSELS. DE LA POSTE, This excellent Establishment, situated Rue Fosse aux Loups, will be found very convenient to visitors who prize cleanliness and comfort. It is very substantially furnished, has an excellent cuisine, and displays every attention to visitors, the charges .^eing Omnibus to and from the Station. Smoking and Sitting Rooms. Electric Light in all the Rooms. Telephone No. 392. Steam Heating. Lift. Mme. TILMANS, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. BRUSSELS. THE METROPOLE HOTEL. THE LEADING HOTEL OF BELGIUM. Best situation. Latest improvements. Great luxury. Five o’clock Tea. American Bar. Lifts. 500 Apartments, provided with Bath. Offices of the Sleeping-cars at the Hotel. Telephone to Foreign Countries in all rooms. Cook's Coupons accepted. BRUSSELS. HOTEL DE BORDEAUX. 135, RUE DE MIDI. Healthily situated, old-established Hotel. Very comfortable^ and clean. First-rate cooking. Very moderate charges. English, German, Dutch and French spoken. Baths. v cxy x . T -_-uY „i, * Telephone 1392. New Dining Room for Winter Garden. Electric Light in all the rooms. 200 guests. Large Hall and Steam Heating, ED. GOMPEL, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons , Series R, accepted. 18 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. BRUSSELS. HOTEL BRISTOL AND MARINE. 9, Bd. du Gardin Botannique. . . . , This excellent Establishment is situated at the Nord Station, m the finest and healthiest part of the town. First-class cooking, and old wines. Every modern comfort. Moderate charges. Reading Saloon with English and American newspapers Smoking and Conversation Saloons. Baths and Garden. Electric Light throughout. All languages spoken. Electric Tramway communication with all parts of the City. Pension it desired. Night Porter. Central Heating. Telephone No. 2354. Teleg^ms-‘‘ Marine Hotel, Brussels.” JOS. KEKULE, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons, Series R, accepted. Same Proprietorship — Hotel Gd. Monarque & Empereur. BUDAPEST. GRAND HOTEL ROYAL. In the centre of the City and close to all places of interest. Well-known Family Hotel of the first class, provided with all the most modern comforts. Private Suites with Bath. Beautiful Reception Rooms, Large Public Rooms. Large elegant Restaurant, with Concert every evening. 320 Rooms, from 4 kr. upwards, including Electric Light, Central Heating, Lift, and Service. BUDAPEST. HOTEL BRISTOL. First-Class Family Hotel. With splendid Views of the River and Mountains of Buda, near the Steamboat Stations. Suites with Private Bath and Toilette. Winter Garden. Hall. Large Terrace on the Danube. Fine Restaurant . Rooms from 5 kr. inclusive. Electric Light. Central Heating, Service, and Lift. CADENABBIA. Lake of Como. HOTEL BELLEVUE. Leading House in the District. Unsurpassed for its appointments, Cuisine, service and comfort. Un- rivalled position. Best Golf Links in Italy. A. FEDELE, Manager. Cook’s Coupons accepted. CAIRO (Egypt). BRISTOL HOTEL AND HOTEL DTJ NIL. First-class Family Hotel. Situated opposite the famous Esbekieh Gardens, in the heart of the town. Home comfort. Moderate charges. Full pension from 10s. 3d. per day. Cook’s Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 19 CAIRO. SHEPHEARD’S HOTEL. THE PREMIER HOTEL IN EGYPT. SEMIRAMIS HOTEL. THE MODERN HOTEL IN EGYPT. GHEZIREH PALACE. THE IDEAL WINTER RESORT. CALAIS. TERMINUS HOTEL AND BUFFET (Gare Maritime). The only one on Pier Splen- did view of Sea & Port. 1st Cl. Entirely renovated. Elec. Lift & Light. Central Heating. Apart, with Bath. Renowned Cuisine and Cellar. Hal), Reading-room, Terrace, Bracing Air. Travellers have time for lunching at Buffet, Official notice is given of the departure of trains 5 mins, beforehand. CANARY ISLANDS.— Finest Climate in the World. GRAND HOTEL QUISISANA. TENERIFFE. Most modern Hotel in the Canary Islands. Furnished in luxurious style by London firm. English sanitation. Bathrooms on every floor. Hotel stands in own grounds of 60 acres. All rooms exceptionally lofty and ventilated perfectly. Superb scenery. Golf. Finest Cuisine. Cables “ Quisisana, Teneriffe.” Passages booked by all lines. Rooms reserved. Illustrated booklets, tariff and all particulars free of charge from CANARY ISLANDS and MADEIRA AGENCY, 11, ADAM STREET, STRAND, London, W.C. (Telephone, Gerrard 8616). CANNES (French Riviera). whole HOTEL VICTORIA. wSS!I YEAR. YEAR. Central situation. Fine Garden. Near Sea. Comfortable Rooms. Electric Light. Very good table. Tramway at the door. Pension from 9_frs. For parties of six in two rooms, 7s. Hot Water Heating throughout. L. W. PILATTE, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. CARLSBAD. SAVOY WESTEND HOTEL, Villa Cleopatra, Villa Carlton, and Villa Hohenburg. MODERN HIGH-CLASS FASHIONABLE HOTEL. It is situated in the Westend quarter, opposite the American Park, in the healthiest position of Carlsbal. FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT. Saloons, Reading and Smoking Rooms. Garden. Terrace. Electric Light. Hydraulic Lift. During May and September, reduced prices. Terms according to season. Telegrams — “ Savoy hotel.” Telephone No. 333. A. AULICH, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted on terms according to Season. B 2 20 CONIINEN'IAL HOTELS. CHALONS s. MARNE. HOTEL DE LA HAUTE-MERE-DIEU. Verv good Family Hotel, on the way to Switzerland via Calais and Basle. Excellent Diace to break the journey. Hotel well known in England for its comfort, excellent cooking and delicious wines. The cellars contain one of the finest selections of wines and spirits in I?ance v“sitors by train or motor must not pass through or close to Chalons, a. Marne without stopping at the Haute-Mere-Dieu. The Hotel has just been enlarged and improved, and its rooms newly decorated and furnished. New sanitary arrangements. Modern Bath- room ShSver Bath. Lavatories with hot and cold water Room with Private Toi.et, Bath' and wc Steam Heating throughout. Electric Light. Table d’hote. New Restaurant. Reading and Smoktag Room* 5 Garage. Pit. Garden. Post Office close to the Hotel. Telephone No. 4. Telegraphic Address : “Hotel Meumer. CHAMONIX. CHAMONIX-PALACE. Opening the 1st of May, 1914. __ _ _ GRANDS HOTELS D’ANGLETERRE ET DE LONDRES. All First Class. . , _ . , _ , , Large Park. Splendidly situated. Lifts. Tennis. Apartments with Private Baths Hot aifficold running water. Garage-boxes. Orchestra. Open-ai^Kigtaur^mt,^ cooking. Cook’s Coupons accepted. CHAMONIX. GRAND HOTEL COUTTET ET DU PARC. First-class and most comfortable Hotel, finely situated in a . large and shady . garden with snlendid view of the Mont Blanc. Apartments, with . Ba ^ s ’_ ®. le f tnc ,. Ll S h ^’ Tennis-court Garage with boxes, Central Heating. Open m the Winter time, Skating S belonging to the Hotel. Skating, Hockey, Tobogganing, Bobsleighing, Tailing, etc. COUTTET BROTHERS, Proprietors. Cook’s Coupons accepted. CHAMONIX. GRAND HOTEL ROYAL AND DE SAUSSURE. First class English Family Hotel. Delightful free situation, with a large sheltered Park and Gard n Magnific™ view of the Mont Blanc. High-class cuisine Restaurant Smoking aid Reading Rooms. Baths. Excellent telescope for free use of visitors. Electric Light throughout, Moderate charges. Special arrangements for families. Lawn Tennis. COUTTET FR&RES, Proprietors. Cook’s Coupons accepted . CHAMONIX. HOTELS BEAU-SITE AND CONTINENTAL. Excellent second-class Hotel, recommended to families for great comfort. Beautifully «iw£d in a large garden facing Mont Blanc and its Glaciers. Good sanitary conditions. FRst ratrcooking g Most m^dlrate terms. Bathrooms. Smoking and Reading Rooms. Electric Light throughout. Telephone No. 16 Auto-’bus. Winter season. Central Heating. Patronised by English families. Garage for Automobiles. J. CURRAL-COUTTET, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons , Series R, accepted CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 21 CHA.MPERY (Suisse), 3,600 feet. Summer and Winte^Resort. ^ChaniSng^Mitoe'lor Sourslons. GRAND HOTEL DENT DU MIDI. Hea^r'S. 7 frs. m Summ ^ r ’n a °g“ r ^VH‘ EXHENRY, Proprietor of the Hotel du Cerf, Monthey. Cook’s Coupons accepted. COBLENCE. HOTEL ZUR TRAUBE. Renovated 1910. (Landing Stage.) Close to the Piers. Beautiful view son the Rhine Electric Light. Central Heating. Telephone No. 42. Every comfort. Omnibus at the Station. Auto-Garage. A, FLORY, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons , Series R, accepted. Hotel Disch COLOGNE (Rhine). First-class House, near Cathe- dral and Station. Rebuilt and renovated in 1911/12. 170 Rooms, 40 having Baths and Lavatories attached. Cook's Coupons , Series W, accepted. COLOGNE Dom-Hotel domplatz. (Rhine). 200 Rooms. 28 Private Batlis. OPPOSITE THE RAILWAY and BOAT STATIONS. Cook’s Office in the Building. COMO. HOTEL METROPOLE AND SUISSE, “MONOPOLE” AU LAC. Well-known Swiss house, open t lie wl.»lr„>w . Dnri vailed position on larder of the Ld. Kenowned Open-air from Lucerne. Cook’s Coupons accepted. 22 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. CONSTANCE (Bodensee), Germany. INS EL HOTEL im See. The leading Hotel of the Lake. The principal first-class Hotel in Constance. In an ancient Dominican Convent dating from the year 1235. Considered unique in its kind from the historical and architectural point of view. Up-to-date arrangements and new rooms tastefully furnished have of late greatly increased the comfort and the homeliness of the Hotel. Fashionable Family Hotel. Under the personal management of M. BRUNNER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. CONSTANTINE. GRAND HOTEL DE PARIS ROYAL. First-class Hotel. The best situated in the town, near public buildings ; ten minutes from entrance to the Gorges du Klumel. Recommended to tourists for its cleanliness and comfort. Very interesting stalactite grottoes in the Hotel itself, at a depth of 25 metres. Lift. Electric Light. Omnibus meets all trains. Languages spoken. Very advantageous rates for tourists. Cook's Coupons accepted. CORTINA (d’Ampezzo 4,025 feet above sea-level), TYROL. QUEEN OP THE DOLOMITES. GRAND HOTEL MIRAMONTI. First-class new Hotel, situated amongst beautifully green Alpine meadows and near extensive forests. Grand panoramic view of the Dolomites. 150 spacious, lofty and well- furnished rooms. Apartments with private Bath, private Sitting Room. Numerous Bal- conies. Large, elegant Dining Room with separate Tables. Central Heating. Electric Light. Baths on every floor. Large Vestibule and Public Rooms. Verandas and Restaurant. Tennis- court. Auto-Garage. Telephone. Carriage horses and guides in the house. Moderate terms. R. MANAIGO, Proprietor, Cook's Coupons accepted. MISURINA (5,760 feet), DOLOMITES. 12 miles from Railway Station, Toblach, Tyrol, and miles from Cortina. HOTEL ALPENHOF. First-elass new Family Hotel, on the Lake of Misurina, with every modern comfort. Beautiful views of Dolomites. Apartments with Bath. Balconies near every room. Lifts, Electric Light. Open fireplaces and Central Heating throughout. Vestibule. Public rooms. Veranda and Restaurant. Carriage horses and Motor Garage. Open also for Winter Sports. E. F. VECELL10, Proprietor. Hotel Misurina, in Misurina — same Proprietor. • Cook's Coupons accepted. Lifts. DAVOS PLATZ. Lifts. GRAND HOTEL AND BELVEDERE. Largest first-class English Hotel (open the whole year), particularly recommended to English travellers. 200 Bedrooms. Splendid Saloons (renovated) and vast Assembly Hall, with stage for theatricals. Symphony Concerts. Beautiful views. Terraces, Verandas, Lawn Tennis ground, Sleighing, Skating, Curling. Two full-sized English Billiard Tables. Library. English sanitary arrangements carried out by English firm and English workmen. Pension for a week’s stay. Electric Light throughout. For further information apply to CH. ELSENER, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 23 DIEPPE. GRAND HOTEL. On the Front and facing Sea. Apartments with Bathrooms. Magnificent Trout Fishing for clients of the Hotel. Garage. Telephone 1 . 64. G. DUCOUDERT, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. DRESDEN. THE NEW SENDIG HOTEL. 365 Rooms. EUROPAISCHER HOF. 100 Bathrooms. Telegrams ; “ SENDIG, DRESDEN. SENDIG-Schandau SENDIG’S Hotel Quisisana, etc. 150 Rooms. (Swiss Saxony). Cook's Coupons (Series W) accepted. GRAND DRESDEN. UNION HOTEL. Near Central Station. One of the best managed Hotels. Unrivalled position. Gar den in front and back. Magnificent high-class Fami y Establishment, in the finest part of the town (the English Quarter). Suites and Koo^g . with Private Bath . Latest improvements. Garden, Garage^boxraL ^odendechai^es. Cook's Coupons accepted. EL KANTARA. HOTEL BERTRAND. Entrance to the Gorges, Oasis of 90,000 Palm Trees. Three very important villages Excursion^ to the Gorges de Tilatou, Maafa, Beni Terrah. Observation tower of the Metlili, Alabaster mountains. Moufflon and gazelle hunting. Omnibus meets all trams. Telephone 0.01. Cook's Coupons accepted. EMS (Bad). “ the ROYAL KURHAUS.” Rebuilt 1912-13. The most modern Hotel. Suites and Rooms with Private Bathrooms and Toilet. Cold r ITwater Central Heating. Three Lifts. Telephone in every room. Vacuum Cleaner. Electric Light throughout. The Royal Drinking Springs, Miner a Raths are in the Hotel. Most central and finest situation. mi The Hotel is connected by covered corridors with the Kursaal and Theatre. Cook\s Coupons accepted. 24 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. ENGELBERG (3,300 feet — 1,019 m. above sea). HIGH-CLASS ALPINE .RESORT. GRAND HOTEL AND KURHAUS AND HOTEL TITLIS. The two leading Hotels, with 600 beds and all modern comfort. Patronised by distinguished English families. Three Tennis-courts. Large Ball and Concert Room. Own Orchestra from the Scala in Milan. Summer Season, May to October. Winter Sport, November to March. Kindly apply for prospectus and Pension terms. CATTANI BROS., Proprietors, Cook's Coupons accepted. EVIAN-LES-BAINS. The beautiful and highly patronised watering-place in Savoy on the borders of Lake Leman. Complete Thermal Establishment. Recommended by most of the leading Doctors of England, Prance, and Germany, and frequented by European aristocracy. Theatre, Golf, Tennis, Casino, splendid Excursions. Two daiiy trains de luxe. Over 13,000,000 bottles of water annually exported. ROYAL HOTEL. in Europe. SPLENDIDE HOTEL. “The Home of Comfort.” These two Hotels are under the management of the Ritz and Carlton Hotels of London. Cook’s Coupons accepted. FINS-HAUTS (Switzerland). GRAND HOTEL BRISTOL. First class. Lift. Bathrooms on every floor. 120 Beds. GRAND HOTEL DE FiNHAUT. First class. 1,237 metres. 80 Beds. Near the station of the Martigny-Chamonix Railway. Altitude Electric Light. L0NFAT BROTHERS, Proprietors. FLORENCE. THE GRAND HOTEL BA.GLIONI. Near the Railway Station, central and quiet. Sunnj 7 . Modern Hotel with the best and up-to-date comfort. Rooms and Suites, with connecting Private Bath and Dressing-room. Complete Auto-Garage in the Hotel. Large Smoking and Lounging Hall. A. & G. BAGLI0NI BROS., Proprietors. Branch House BOLOGNA, Hotel Baglioni. Cook’s Coupons accepted. FLORENCE. GRAND HOTEL PORTA ROSSA ET CENTRAL. Most complete second-class Hotel. Every comfort. Full South. Centrally situated. Lift. Electric Light, and Central Steam Heating in every room. Safe for jewellery. Hot and cold Baths. Douches. Omnibus at the station. Rooms, with Bath and w.c. Garage. T 489. G. CASPARIS, Manager. ERNESTO CHECCHI, new Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons, iSeries R, accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 25 FLORENCE. GRAND HOTEL DE LA VILLE. FIRST CLASS. Lung ’Arno and Piazza Manin. Best and quietest situation. All latest comforts. French Restaurant. Evening Concerts. Open all the year. T. RITTER, Proprietor. FLORENCE. HOTEL ROMA. Place S. M. Novella No. 8. Near Central Station and Galleries. Central. Entirely renovated. Apartments with Bath and Toilette. Modem comfort. Omnibus. Open all the year. L. PIETROBELLI, Proprietor. FLORENCE (Italy). HOTEL METROPOLE AND LONDRES. 2, VIA S ASSET TI (Sassetti Palace), and Piazza Victor Emanuel. New part of the town. Central and quiet location, full South. Omnibus at the Railway Station. Open all the year. Every modern comfort. Telegraphic Address : “ Luckenbach, Florence.” Cook's Coupons accepted. FLORENCE. HOTEL FLORENCE AND WASHINGTON. 6, Lung ’Arno, Amerigo Vespucci. First-class House. Splendid position. Modern comfort. Suites and Rooms with Bath room attached. Central Heating in all rooms. Lift, etc. CARLO GOBBO, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. FRANKFORT a. M. HOTEL UNION. FIRST CLASS. Finest central position. Near the Goetlieplatz. Every modern comfort. Private Bathrooms. Auto-Garage. F. W. KNOBLAUCH, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. 26 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. FRANKFORT a. M. HOTEL BRISTOL. First class. Directly opposite the Station. Every modern comfort. Patronised by the best English and American families. Rooms from 4s., including Breakfast. Excellent Beds. Private Bathrooms throughout. EUGEN KIEFER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. FREIBURG (in Breisgau, Baden). HOTEL D E L’EUROPE. (EUROPAISCHER HOF.) First-class Hotel, situated to the left of the Railway Station close to Post Office ^and a few minutes from the Cathedral. In quiet and finest open situation on the Promenade, smr^nded hy nice Gardens. Covered and open Terraces for Open-air Restaurant. Electric Lightf and Steam Heating. Apartments with Private Bath and Toilette. Lilt. Perfect sanftary arrangements. English Newspapers. H ° tel porters at every train : no omnibus wanted^ year Cook's Coupons accepted. FREIBURG, BADEN (Black Forest). HOTEL SOMMER, Z AEHRIN GERHOF . The leading Hotel of the place, opposite the principal Station. Perfect sanitary arrangements. New Hall and covered Terrace with Restaurant. Apartments with Baths. Central Heating. Open all the year. Auto-Garage. SOMMER BROTHERS, Proprietors. FREUDENSTADT (Germany). HOTEL AND KURHAUS WALDECK. FIRST CLASS. Absolutely new building with every modern comfort. Apartments with private bath. Central Heating. French cooking. Trout Fishing. Own Private Orchestra. CARL LUZ, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. FRIBOURG, SUISSE. HOTEL DE ROME. New first-class Hotel, near the Station. Situated in the finest quarter of the town near the Universities and Colleges. Electric Light and Lift. Best cooking. Garage for 18 motor-cars. Omnibus at the station. CHAS. SWOBODA, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 27 GARDONE (Riviera). Lake of Garda — Italy. GRAND HOTEL. Cook's Coupons accepted. GENEVA. HOTEL D’ANGLETERRE. First class. Entirely refurnished. Unrivalled panorama. Large terrace facing the Landing Stage and the Mont Blanc. Private Bathrooms and Suites. Hot-water Heating in every room. Omnibus to all trains. Telegraphic Address : “ Hangleterre, Geneva.” A. REICHERT, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. GENEVA. INTERNATIONAL HOTEL. (PACING THE STATION.) New building with 120 Rooms, from 3 frs. upward, entirely up-to-date. Lift and Central Heating. Ladies’ Drawing-room. Moderate charges. Mrs. E. AMHERD, Proprietress. Cook’s Coupons , Series R, accepted. Established 1785 . GENEVA. HIGH-CLASS WATCH FACTORY. 28 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. GENEVA. HOTEL DES ALPES. Excellent second-class Hotel, in central position near the English Garden. Newest sanitary improvements and modern convenience. Central Heating. Electric Eight. Baths. Lift. Dark Room. Premises for Cycles. Special moderate terms for long stay. RUE DE RIVE 22. STAUB & TANNER, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons ( Series R) accepted. GENOA. HOTEL BRISTOL. Opposite the New Exchange. The most fashionable Hotel in Genoa. Rendezvous of the aristocracy and cosmopolitan Haute Finance. International telephone in every room. ‘HOTEL SAVOY. First class. Completely renovated. Near the Central Station and the Harbour. No smoke or noise from the trains. Neaf “ Garage International.” HOTEL DE LONDRES. (BIJOU HOTEL.) Facing the Central Station and close to the Harbour. First class. Moderate charges. Bar. The new CATERING OF DINING AND RESTAURANT SERVICES on board of the SOUTH AMERICAN EXPRESS LINE, with the fast and luxurious steamers “ Principessa Mafalda,” “ Re Vittorio,” “ Regina Elena,” “ Principe Umberto,” “ Duca degli Abruzzi,” “Duca di Genova,” “Duca d’Aosta,” is under the same management. AUXILIARY CRUISERS OF THE ITALIAN ROYAL NAVY. FIORONI. * Cook's Coupons accepted. wibL CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 29 GENOA. GRAND HOTEL DE GENES. First- Class Leading Hotel. Best situation in the town. In front of the Opera House .Apartments ^tns wi& Bath and w.c. Telephone in every room. Lift. Electric Light. Steam I g. Genova.” Garage. International Telephone 11-16. , Cook's Coupons accepted. GIRGENTI. GRAND HOTEL DES TEMPLES. and large Park. Open 1st October-15th May. 90 Beds. LEO TRIPPI, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. GLETSCH. HOTEL DU GLACIER DU RHONE a GLETSCH. i son m qoo Beds Electric Light. Baths. Apartments with Bathroom and Toilet. The Furka, Grimsel, and Brigue diligences stop here at midday and evening, ng is urc 1 . HOTEL PENSION BELVEDERE (Route Furka). provided with every modern comfort, mclu mg J0SE p H SEILER, Proprietor, terms from 10 frs. ’ Cock's Coupons accepted. glion sur territet, montreux. GRAND HOTEL RIGHI VAUDOIS. First-class Hotel, situated in “ct sanitary E. RIECHELMANN, Proprietor. GOESCHENEN (Switzerland). GRAND HOTEL GOESCHENEN. (Facing the St. Gothard Railway Station.) English and American .visitor. .to find everv comfort. Good, cuisine, attentive service, . , +Vig VfpviVs Bridsre Charming walks amongsti the * grandest Pass, and Oberalp Andermatt, Goeschenen Valley, etc. Chief starting piaoe nn HUBER-ADAM. routes. Bl^tric Light m all rWM^ Furka , Brigue , Meiringen etc., can he had Private O-nmgeTW ^officea ofTaos. Cook & Son. Cook’s Coupons accepted. 30 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. GRENOBLE. GRAND HOTEL MODERNE. Built and furnished in accordance with the latest improvements in connection with comfort and hygiene. 200 Rooms and Saloons. Independent Apartments for families. Electric Lighting and Heating in all rooms. Baths and Douches. Lifts. Special shelter for Motor-cars. Dark Room. Interpreters. Information given. Carriages and Guides for excursions. Railway Tickets. Belvedere with admirable view of the Alps mountain chains. First-class Restaurant. Moderate terms. Telephone in every room. A. GODEL, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. GRINDELWALD (Switzerland). 3,468 ft. above sea-level. In the heart of the finest mountain scenery of Switzerland (the Wetterhorn, Eiger, Monch, J ungfrau and other giants). THE BEAR HOTEL. (Close to the English Church.) First class. 300 Beds. Old-established Premier English Hotel. Central Heating. Electric Light. Lift. Private Bathrooms. Orchestra. Tennis. WORLD-RENOWNED WINTER SPORTS CENTRE. Open — May 15th to October 1st. December 1st to middle of March. Cook's Coupons accepted. During Winter Season Special Coupons. THE HAGUE (Holland). HOTEL DU PASSAGE. Renowned Hotel in most central position. Fitted with all modern comforts. Lift and Baths. Recommended for its excellent cooking and good attendance. Rooms and Break- fast from Flor. 2.25. Charges moderate. Omnibus at Central Station. J. JANSEN, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons, Series R, accepted. HAMBURG. HOTEL ATLANTIC. Three minutes from the principal railway station, on the outer Alster Lake. Rooms from 5 marks upwards ; with Bath and Toilette from 10 marks. RESTAURANT PFORDTE. Modern Auto-Garage. HANOVER. HOTEL ROYAL. Facing Central Station. Patronised by Royalty and the best English and American Society. THE QUIETEST AND MOST DISTINGUISHED HOTEL OF HANOVER. Every comfort for travellers. Suites and Single Rooms with Private Toilet and Bath on American model. Motor-car Garage. Cook’s Coupons accepted. mmm* ■HE CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 31 HAVRE. NORMANDY HOTEL. ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. 106-108, Rue de Paris. 71, Rue Bazan. Modern first-class Hotel. Latest comforts. Rooms with Bath. Central Heating. Renowned cuisine and wines. Table dHote. Dinner 3.50 and 5 frs. Hot and cold water in all rooms. telephone 961 . , MOREAU, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. Electricity. Lift. Lunch 3 and 4 frs. Omnibus meets steamers on HEIDELBERG. SCHLOSS HOTELS. First-class Family Hotels. Unique position near to the Castle Ruin. Splendid View. Rooms and Suites with Bath and Toilet. Garages with latest improvements. Automobile and Porter at the station. During Winter 1913-1914 entirely rebuilt. Highest comfort. HEIDELBERG. HOTEL VICTORIA. First class. Entirely renovated and enlarged. Apartments with Baths. Big Terrace and Restaurant. Garden. Concerts. Garage. Specially recommended to English and American travellers. H. MULLER and F. PIGUERON, Proprietors, Cook's Coupons accepted. HELOUAN-LES-BAINS (Egypt). < 25 £r ° m For the famous Desert Sulphur Cure. Warm, dry desert air. Magnificent modern Bathing Establishment. Supervised by an English Medical Director. Natural warm Sulphur-Saline water, very considerably stronger than that of Aix or Harrogate. All kinds of baths and douches. The Helouan Bath a speciality. Massage by experienced European Masseurs and Masseuses. Only place in the world where treatment of Gout, Rheumatism, Sciatica Lumbago, etc., can be carried out in winter under ideal climatic conditions. XBCB JEIOTKI. M « X.OXT J&JJ3ST - The best Hotel at Helouan. English home comforts. Nearest to the Golf Links, which are considered the best in Egypt. Apartments and Single Rooms with private Bath and Toilet Excellent cuisine. Special diet according to doctor’s orders. Terms from 14s. 3d. upwards per day inclusive. Write for illustrated pamphlet giving ail particulars. THE XXOTXSXa DES BiLIBTS. o 7j Comfortable Family Hotel. Opposite the Baths. Beautiful Gardens. Terms from 8s. 3d. to 12s. 3d. per day inclusive. Cook’s Coupons. A. PETRY, Mgr, A. WILD, Gen. Mgr. INNSBRUCK. HOTEL KREID. Near the Railway Station. Every modern comfort. Lift. Baths. Garden. Veranda. Arrangements for families. Special Pension terms during the Winter Season. Omnibus at Station. Cook’s Office in same building. j KREID( p roprietor . Cook's Coupons (Series A,\B, C) ’accepted. 32 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. INNSBRUCK. WINTER AND SUMMER RESORT. Climate in Winter sunny, dry, cold, bracing, with- out cold winds, especially recommended for weak constitutions, aneemia, reconvalescence, throat diseases, etc. All sorts of Winter Sport— Tobog- ganing, Skating, Sleighing (splendid skating rinks), amusements, theatres, balls, concerts, etc. Excel- lent Educational advantages, University, Gymna- sium, Music, etc., etc. Schools, private lessons Summer Season, beautiful Walks, Excursions, etc. Most beautiful drive to the Bavarian castle and Ober Ammergau. HOTEL TYROL. First-class modern comfort. Lift. Electric Light. Home comforts. Central Heating. Historical Pamphlet, illustrated, sent on application. Cook's “W” Coupons accepted. CARL LANDSEE, Proprietor. INTERLAKEN (Switzerland). GRAND HOTEL ROYAL— ST. GEORGE’S. (PENSION.) Situated on the main Promenade (Hoheweg). Magnificent new building with every comfort. Fireproof. Telephone in each room. Fire alarm. Cuisine and cellar excellent. Diet Cuisine if required. Large Restaurant. Automobile Garage. Moderate terms. Prospectus on application. LICHTENBERGER BROS., Proprietors. Cook’s Coupons accepted. INTERLAKEN. GRAND HOTEL METROPOLE. First class, in central position, on Hoheweg. MODERATE CHARGES. SUITES WITH PRIVATE BATHS. E. SEILER, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. INTERLAKEN. Savoy Hotel, suites wth Bath. 400 Beds. Hotel National. Cook’s Coupons accepted. IN WINTER: WYDER’S GRAND HOTEL, MENTONE. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 33 INTERLAKEN. GRAND HOTEL (and BEAU RIVAGE). Fine and quiet situation on the Hoheweg. First class throughout. Table d’hdte at separate tables. Garage free of charge. Fine Restaurant. Open 1st May to 30th September. Large Garden. ALBERT DOEPFNER, Proprietor and Manager, Cook’s Coupons accepted. INTERLAKEN. GRAND HOTEL VICTORIA. A unique position on the Hoheweg, offering a grand view of the Jungfrau and its incomparable panorama. First-class Hotel. Apartments of Sitting, Bed, and. Private Bathrooms. French Restaurant. American Bar. English Billiards. Lifts, Electric Light. Central Heating. Concerts. Balls. Splendid Sporting Grounds Motor-car Shed. Pension Terms in Spring and Autumn. Cook's Coupons accepted. GRAND HOTEL JUNGFRAU. Situated in the centre of the Hoheweg, with a magnificent view of the Jungfrau. Recently enlarged and improved with every modern comfort. Private Bathrooms. Grand Restaurant, with Terrace and Grill Room. Large Hall. Rooms from 4 frs. Large shady Gardens. Lawn Tennis. Motor-car Shed. Pension prices for a prolonged gfcay. Cook's Coupons accepted. INTERLAKEN. HOTEL DU PONT. Close to the Central Station. Large shady Garden along the river. Undoubtedly the finest view of the glaciers. Billiard-room. Saloon. Electric Light Baths. Perfect sanitary arrangements. Rebuilt and enlarged in 1897. Eighty beds. Front rooms only. Moderate charges. Pension. Open all the year. * BRUNNER, Proprietor and Manager. Cook’s Coupons , Series R, accepted. JERSEY. THE GRAND * — is — The only MODERN and BEST APPOINTED HOTEL in the Channel Islands. Unrivalled situation facing sea. Golfing. Tennis.. Reduced terms during Winter months on application to Manager. Telegraphic— “ Grand, Jersey.” Cook’s Coupons accepted. * . Omnibuses meet all boats. JERUSALEM (Palestine). GRAND NEW HOTEL. The leading Hotel in Jerusalem. Situate near Jaffa Gate, Tower of David, and all places of interest in the City. Electric Light throughout. Bathrooms, etc. Latest sanitary improvements Thus, Cook & Sons travellers are accommodated at this Hotel. To avoid disappointment apply for rooms in advance. Interpreters meet all steamers at Jaffa and train at J erusalem. A. & J. M0RC0S, Proprietors. o 34 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. KLAGENFURT (Austria). HOTEL MOSER (Verdino). FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. J. VERDINO, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. KREUZNACH. HOTEL ROYAL D’ANGLETERRE. THE NEWEST, THE LARGEST AND THE LEADING HOTEL OF THE TOWN. 200 Rooms and Saloons. Apartments with Private Bath for Radium, Brine and Fresh Water Baths. Quiet and dust-free position, facing the Kurpark. NEW ! Im- posing lounge with large terrace attached. Winter Garden. Garage with Lock-up Boxes. Prospectus. Cook's Coupons accepted. LANDECK (Tyrol) 813 m. POST HOTEL. Modern Alpine Hotel. N ewly built. Apart- ments with Bath and w.c. 130 Beds. Central Heating. Post. Telegraph. Telephone. Tourist Agency. Starting - point of all post motor - cars. Diligences. Mail coaches via Finstermunz to the Lower and Upper Engadin. Stilfserjoch and Italian lakes. Fernpass — Bavarian Kings’ Castles. Private travelling motor-cars. Map of Western Tyrol free of charge. Club Hotel of all first-class Automobile Clubs. J. MULLER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. LAUSANNE. HOTEL EDEN. First class, newly built, with spacious rooms and vestibule ; undoubtedly the best situated Hotel near the Station (Avenue de la Gare). Every modern comfort. Lift, Electric Light, Baths, and Central Heating throughout. Delightful view on Lake and Alps. Suit- able for passers through and for families en pension. Apartments with Private Baths. Table d’Hdte at separate tables. Moderate charges. WILLIAM ERASIME-HEIM. Cook's Coupons accepted. LAUSANNE. HOTEL GIBBON. First class. Rebuilt 1912. All modern comfort. Delightful central situation, near Railway Station. Fine view on Lake and Alps. Large terrace. Veranda and Garden. Family residence of the historian, Edward Gibbon. L. LIEBERMANN, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted . CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 35 LAUSANNE. HOTEL METROPOLE. AVENUES DE FLORIMONT ET DBS ALPES. New first-class Hotel. Opened August, 1912. Situated in a fashionable and quiet part of the town. Unrivalled view over the Lake and Alps. Five minutes from Railway Station and centre of town. Electric Light and Central Heating in every room. Large Public rooms. Lift. Terrace. Garage and Pit. Library, 1,000 volumes. Rooms, 3 frs. upwards. Pension, 7 frs. upwards. Regime de Table. FRANCOIS RUDMANN, new Proprietor. LE PONT VALLORBE, JURA (Valid), SWITZERLAND. On the principal Line — Paris-Lausanne. 3,600 feet above sea-level. High-class Summer and Winter Health Resort. GRAND HOTEL DU LAC DE JOUX. IDEAL FIRST-CLASS FAMILY HOTEL. Modern comfort. Tennis. Croquet. Lake. Baths. Trout Fishing. Rowing. Steamer Excursions. Beautiful Pine Forests. Garage. Motor at the Station. In Winter : — Tobogganing (Davos toboggan run and special Canadian toboggan run). Curling. Ice-Hockey. Ski-ing. Skating. Bobsleighing. Ice-Sailing. English Church Service. Orchestra. Inclusive terms from 10 frs. upwards, P. BRAGGER, Proprietor. LISBON (Portugal). GRAND HOTEL CENTRAL. First-class Hotel. 100 Bedrooms. Under new management. Unsurpassed position facing the River Tagus. Five minutes from the Central Station. Extensive improvements have been made and the sanitation has been thoroughly over- hauled and brought up to date. Lift. Electric Light throughout. Dark Room. Excellent French cuisine and famous old cellars. Mostly frequented by English and German visitors. Continental languages spoken. Moderate charges. Garage. Motor-car. Telegrams: “ Centralhotel.” Cook's Coupons accepted. LISBON (Portugal). THE GRAND HOTEL D’IN GLATERRA. OPPOSITE CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION. The most modern and most central Hotel in Lisbon. Overlooking the famous Avenida. Lift. Electric Light throughout. English sanitary in- stallation. Central Heating. Pension from 12.50 frs. New Restaurant Franpais and French Cuisine. Apply to— A. BARR0S, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. LOURDES. GRAND HOTEL HEINS AND GRAND HOTEL DU BOULEVARD. First-class establishment. Well known for its excellent management and its irreproach- able cooking. 150 Rooms and Saloons. Omnibus and carriage at all trains. Specially recommended to the Clergy and as a family pension. Electric Light. Baths. Sehab la Espanol. English spoken. Man spricht Deutsch. In the same house : Large Bazaar of the Grand Hotel Heins. Large assortment of religious objects. Four minutes from the grotto. Telephone No. 63. Cook's Coupons accepted. FRANCOIS HEINS, Proprietor. 36 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. Gold Medal. lucerne. BOSSARD, Jeweller, SCHWANENPLATZ. Next door to Cook’s Office. Own extensive workshop. Repairs. Paris, 1889. LUCERNE. HOTEL VICTORIA AND D’ANGLETERRE. First class, on New Boulevard Pilatus. 150 Beds. Private Bathrooms. Electric Light and Hot Water Heating throughout. Full South. View on the Mountains. Large New Hall. Table d’Hdte at separate tables. First-class “ Restaurant Fran Managing Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. MEIRINGEN. HOTEL PENSION BRUNIG. Opposite to the Station, in the immediate vicinity of the Post and Telegraph Large P Dining Rooms and a Restaurant on the ground floor. All rooms look out on th Rosenlani Glacier and Reichenbach and Alpbach Falls. Shady Garden. S^Yp^at Telephone Good carriages for the Grimsel-Furka route always ready. Hotel Porter at the Station and Post Office (Diligence). proprletor . Cook’s Coupons, Series R, accepted. , “MEISSEN. KON1GLICHE PORZELLANMANUFAKTUR ZU MEISSEN. Royal Porcelain Manufactory at Meissen, Saxony, half-an-hour by a m rail from Dresden. . Established 1710. Oldest China Manufactory in Europe OBJECTS OP ART: Mirrors, clocks, vases, lustres, sconces, candelabra ( or candles and electric light), centre-pieces, fancy baskets, groups, figures (also biscuit china), models of animals and birds, etc. _ . , ncco . OBJECTS FOR HOUSEHOLD USE : Sets for dinner, coffee, tea, dessert, t.oilpt etc from plain style to the most elaborate and artistic finish. Paintings after own compositions, copies after old and modern masters, Traie Mar * painting on tiles of hard paste *9°"*^ X X Trade Mark (Beware of nitations") muffe fiirnace. ’1st print .gained at ' Oothestri^seT'’’ Sale rooms and depots at Meissen, Dresden, ^Schloss-Strasse >36, and at Leipsig, hotnestrasse b, and commission depots m several important cities. nnint.iriffs on mies oi nuru paste tuma ior wail aecorawun, ett/. « (Beware of Apparatus for physical, chemical, and ^chnicalpur^ colours for imitations.) muffle furnace. 1st prizes gained at many important exhibitions. - i a a. _ DvaoHon Soh MENAGGIO (Lake Como). GRAND HOTEL MENAGGIO. First-class Family Hotel, with all modern requirements. Splendid and quiet position on the shore of the Lake ; surrounded by beautiful Garden and adjoining Landing Pier and Railway Station. Private Bathrooms and Toilet. Moderate Pension terms. Golf. Cook’s Coupons accepted. A. RICCHINI, Proprietor. MENAGGIO. HOTEL VICTORIA. Open all the Year. Modern. Select. Elegant. Beautiful, quiet, open, healthy situation. Fine large Garden. P ? rfec ^ Te ^ Golf Links. English Church in the Hotel. Lift. Own excellent , Spring Water. Latest sanitary improvements. Electric Light in all Ihe rooms. Hot Water Heating in every room. Dr. E. F. Eliot, English resident Physician. Lake Batbs. GIANELLA & BULLO, Proprietors (Swiss). Cook’s Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 41 MENTONE. ROYAL HOTEL WESTMINSTER. First-class House, beautifully situated in own large Garden on the sea-front ; ^ the central part of the town and within but a few minutes of the station and Casino. Modern in every respect. Central Heating ; Electric Light ; Lift ; Baths ; Private Suites. The Garden is one of the finest Hotel gardens in Mentone, facing the sea. Omnibus meets all trains. Select English and American clientele. Cook’s Coupons accepted. J. B. HAGEN, Proprietor. MERAN (South Tyrol). HOTEL ARCHDUKE JOHN. FIRST-CLASS UP-TO-DATE HOTEL. ROB. WENTER, Proprietor. MILAN. HOTEL MANIN. Facing the Public Garden. THE QUIETEST HOUSE IN MILAN. Where no tramcars pass by. Family Hotel with every modern comfort. Private Bath- rooms. Patronised by English and American Society. Reasonable prices. G. COLOMBO, Proprietor. MILAN. GRAND HOTEL DE MILAN. First class in every respect. Close to the Cathedral and Scala Theatre. Rooms and Apartments, with Private Bath and w.c. Railway and Sleeping-Car Office in the Hotel. Luggage registered through. Patronised by the elite of English and American Society. French Restaurant. 50 Rooms with Private Bath and w.c. Moderate charges. New management. , , Branch House— HOTEL COMMERCIO (Second-class). Near the Cathedral in very quiet situation. S. A. SPATZ, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted . MILAN. HOTEL CAVOUR-MILAN. Cook’s Coupons accepted. 42 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. MILAN. HOTEL DU NOED ET DES ANGLAIS. On the Central Railway Station Square. First-class Family Hotel with every modern comfort. Dark Room and Auto-Garage. Apartments with Bath, and Rooms with hot and cold running water. C. GALLIA, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. MILAN. HOTEL VICTORIA. Situated on the Corso Victor Emanuel. Lift. Electric Light. Moderate charges. Pension. Omnibus at the Station. Steam Heating. Baths. CH. FONTANA. Cook’s Coupons, Series R, accepted. MILAN. GRAND HOTEL CONTINENTAL. First class. Central. Lifts. Steam Heating. Railway Booking Office. T. CLERICI, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. MILAN. Central,- with view on the Cathedral, and quiet rooms overlooking the garden. Private Bathrooms. Auto-’bus. Telegraphic Address : — “ Bertolinis, Milan.” Cook’s Coupons accepted. MILAN. BELLINI’S HOTEL TERMINUS. In the immediate vicinity of the Railway Station. All modern improvements. Highly recommended, being scrupulously clean. Moderate charges. Latest sanitary arrangements. Pleasant Garden. Steam Heating. Elevator. BELLINI, Proprietor. I CONTINENTAL HOTELS . 43 MILAN. HOTEL PENSION BONINI. PIAZZA DEL DUOMO. Family Hotel. Near the Post and Telegraph Offices. Trams for all directions in front of the Hotel. Open all the year. GINA BONINI, Proprietor. MONTANA sur SIERRE (Ligne du Simplon). 5,012 feet above sea. GRAND HOTEL DU PARC. DEPENDANCE— CHALET ST. CHARLES. Connected with Sierre by a Funicular. Ten minutes’ drive from the station to the Hotel. The oldest establishment. Occupies the most beautiful position beside a vast forest, property of the Hotel. Magnificent view on the Alps. Modern comfort. Central Heating. Electric Light. Most beautiful Spring and Summer resort. Lovely walks on the Plain. Close to Golf Links. English Church. R.C. Service. Consumptives are not received. L. ANTILLE, Proprietor. May. MONTE CATINI Baths, near Florence. October. Sulphur Chlorine (aperient) Saline Waters. GRAND HOTEL LA PACE. New palatial building situated in its own Park, with panoramic view of surrounding mountains. Lawn Tennis. 250 Rooms. 60 Bathrooms. Cook's Coupons accepted. Branch House — LOCANDA MAGGIORE. 200 Bedrooms. Apartments with Bath. L. MELAN0, General Manager. Stresa. MONTE MOTTARONE. Lake Maggiore. GRAND HOTEL and MOTTARONE, KULM. Italian Righi— 1,500 mt. above sea. New building. The most magnificent panoramic view still known (more than 400 miles round). Electric Light. Bath. Central Heating. Dark Room. Large- glass veranda Restaurant. Sheltered terrace. Many panoramic walks. Large woods. New ElecDuc Cog Railway from Stresa, 1 hour. Concert in Summer. Spring and Autumn reduced terms. All Winter Sports. u# QUGLIELMINA & FIGLI, Prop. Managers. Cook's Coupons accepted. MONTREUX— LES AVANTS. Altitude 1,000 m. The most successful Alpine Health Resort for Spring, Summer and Autumn. Average temperature in Summer 150 C. GRAND HOTEL DES AVANTS, S. MONTREUX. Open all the Year. The Grand Hotel has been lately considerably enlarged and refurnished with every modern comfort. Latest English sanitary arrangements and ve i£p£t nn‘ Electric Railway Montreux-Les Avants-Interlaken. Ten trains in each i direct ao . Funicular: Les Avants-Sonloup Pistes for bobsleigh and toboggan. All Extended Park of 60,000 m 2 . Four Tennis-courts. Information through The MANAGER- 44 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. MONTREUX (Switzerland). MONTREUX PALACE HOTEL. THE LATEST AND MOST MODERN. 350 Rooms. 50 Private Suites. 150 Bathrooms. Perfect English sanitary installation. Salle de Fetes. Reading, Smoking and Bridge Rooms. Grand Hall. French Restaurant. American Bar. English and French Billiard Tables. New Tea-room and Sports Pavilion opened in 1911. Jeux de quilles and Shooting Alleys. Roller Skating Rink. Clay Pigeon Shooting, etc. Tennis-courts. Golf Links. Vast Terraces. Large Gardens. Auto-Garage. Near Central Station, Montreux-Glion-Caux, Montreux-Oberland-Bemois (direct line), and landing stage for steamers. Cook’s Coupons accepted. MONTREUX-TERRITET (Lac Leman, Switzerland). LE GRAND HOTEL ET HOTEL DES ALPES. Newly Rebuilt with all up-to-date Requirements. Landing stage for steamers. 350 Rooms, 30 Drawing-rooms, 80 Bathrooms. Auto- Garage, 40 cars and large repair shop. Five Tennis-courts. Golf Links. Clay Pigeon Shooting. Winter Sports. American Bowling Alleys. Boating. Territet Station two minutes from the Hotel. Omnibus-automobile at Montreux Station, five minutes from the Hotel. Starting point of the Territet-Glion-Caux-Rochers de Naye and Territet-Mont Fleuri Railways. A. AHLBUHG, Manager. Cook’s Coupons accepted. MONTREUX-TERRITET. HOTEL AND PENSION YERNET. Leading first-class Family Hotel, above the Montreux Club. Finest situation on the Lake, near Kursaal, English Church, station and landing stage. J. C. N0WACK, Managing Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. MONTREUX-TERRITET. HYDRO L’ABRI and Kurhaus Territet. Medical establishment for the treatment of internal and nervous diseases (stomach, intestines, heart, kidneys, albuminury, diabetes, gout, rheumatism, anaemia, neurasthenia). Convalescence. Mental or tuberculous cases are not admitted. Treatment : Dietetic cures (Weir-Mitchell), special diets for diabetes, albuminury, gout, etc. Rest cures. All kinds of baths and douches. Air and Sun Baths. Treatment by electricity (galvanisa- tion, faradisation, electrical Baths, etc.). Psychotherapy (suggestion, Psychoanalysis) in appropriate cases. Prospectus and terms apply R. L0Y, M.D., Head Physician. MONTREUX VEYTAUX. HOTEL PENSION LES YIOLETTES. ID minutes from Territet Station. Recently enlarged and replete with ev^ry modern comfort. Electric Light. Central Heating. Numerous balconies. Baths. Cuisine soignee. Dietary cooking if required. Raisin cures. Pension terms (everything included) from 5.50 frs. Mme. JAT0N REMY. \ CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 45 MOSCOW (Russia). HOTEL NATIONAL. First-class Family Hotel with every modern comfort. Near the Kremlin. Booms and Apartments with Bath. Favourite residence of the high Bussian and Foreign Society. JULES WICK, Manager. Cook’s Coupons accepted. MUNICH. . PENSION STELLA. PRINZ LUDWIG-STRASSE 7. Superior House. Quite central. Elegant and quiet position. Lift and Central Heating. Becommended by German Officers’ Club. Telegrams : “ Pension Stella, Munich.” Telephone No. 22085. MUNICH. TURKENSTR 6. PENSION WASHEIM. First class, old-established. In the best and central part of the City. Near all sights. Theatres, Picture Galleries, etc. Whole house with 50 well-furnished rooms. Excellent table. All modern conveniences. Lift. Central Heating. Electric Light. Baths. Moderate terms. Highly recommended and patronised by English and Americans. Pension, including room, from M.6. Cook’s Coupons accepted. MUNICH. HOTEL DE L’EUBOPE. First-class House. Comfortably furnished. Opposite the Central Station (South Wing). Electric Light and Steam Heating throughout. Apartments and Booms with Private Bath. Lift. Moderate prices. Pension as per arrangement. Auto-Garage. HANS HUBNEB, Proprietor, Cook’s Coupons , Series R , accepted. MURREN (Bernese Oberland). GRAND HOTEL and KURHAUS. First class throughout. Winter Sports. Entirely independent. Own large Ice Rink. Bob-run combined with Funicular. Kursaal. Orchestra. Central Heating. Lift. Summer : Tennis, mountainclimbing, shady walks. M. MULLER, Manager. Cook’s Coupons accepted. 46 CONTINENTAL HOTELS . nRSTOASVCEKTRAL-FUlLSOUTH^^^p , SPLENDID VIEW-BATHS-2Un5-SiEAM HEATINCT^™ ‘PERFECT DRAJNAGH3PEN All THE YEAR ROUND ~/jT$ PARTEM ENTS WITH BATH AMD TO t m&post amo telegraph office ®S||gJEiEG ADDRESS: tOISDOHHOT^^^^ rcxtPMOnt r-SK-23 | pfivino pcggiani.Cajipiohs prow* Cook's Coupons accepted. NAPLES. GRAND HOTEL VICTORIA. (The last word in modern Hotel refinement.) Patronised by English and American travellers. Full South, 200 Rooms and Saloons with balcony facing the sea. Directly connected with the splendid Victoria Gallery, Cook’s Central Office Post and Telegraph. Garages Fiat. Situated in the finest and most select part of Naples, with magnificent view of the whole Bay— Posillipo, Capri, Sorrento, and Vesuvius Suites of Apartments, Single and Double Rooms, with Private Dressing and Bathroom. Steam Heating throughout. Moderate charges. G MERLO, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. CHEV. F. MERLO, Proprietor. NAPLES. THE CONTINENTAL HOTEL. Open all the year round. Quai Parthenope (New Embankment). Splendid situation, full South close to the Public Garden and the centre of the town, with magnificent view of the Bay and Vesuvius. Hydraulic Lift. Electric Light. Every kind of Baths. Moderate charges. Central Heating. Two minutes from Cook’s Offices. ALESSANDRO GARBRECHT, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. NAPLES. GRAND HOTEL. Open all the Year. First-class and most comfortable Hotel. Situated in the finest and most select part of Naples with magnificent views of the Town, Vesuvius, and the Bay. Newest and most perfect sanitary arrangements. Steam Heating throughout. Private Bathrooms and Suites. HAUSER & DOEPFNER, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. f GRAND HOTEL MIRAMARE, Genoa. Branch Houses SCHWEIZERHOF, Hotel Gotthard, Lucerne. L GRAND HOTEL AND BEAU RIVAGE, Interlaken. NEUCHATEL (Switzerland). GRAND HOTEL DU LAC. Central position. Renovated. Lift. Baths. Electric Light. Central Heating in every room. Pension the whole year round. Splendid view of Lake and Alps. CLOSE TO THE SCHOOLS. OMNIBUS AT STATION. Auto-Garage. J. BURKHARDT, Proprietor. CooKs Goupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 47 NEUHAUSEN (Switzerland). (Falls of the Rhine.) THE “ SCHWEIZERHOF.” High-class Hotel. Facing the Falls of the Rhine. Splendid and extensive Parks. All modern comfort. 2 Tennis-courts. Auto-Garage. Pension terms from 10 frs. Dietetic meals after any prescription. Open-air Restaurant. ADOLF HUBER-BLESI. (Formerly Gurtenkulm, Berne, and Bellevue Palace, Zurich.) Cook’s Coupons accepted. NICE. HOTEL BEAU RIVAGE. QUAI DU MIDI. Open all the year round. First-class Establishment, facing the sea. Magnificent Saloons and Salle a Manger. Hall. Concerts. Excellent Cuisine. Electric Lifts. Heated, and Electric Light. Bedrooms and Apartments with Private Baths. Cook’s Coupons accepted. NICE. LE GRAND HOTEL. In the centre of the town, opposite the Square Massena. Six hundred Rooms and Saloons, heated. Rooms and private Suites with Bath and Toilet. Cook’s Coupons accepted. NICE. HOTEL DU RHIN AND ATLANTIC. Open all the year round. NEWEST and most comfortable Family Hotel. Central and quiet position on the finest Boulevard, close to Sea and Casinos. Strictly first class, with moderate charges and all hygienic and sanitary improvements. 200 Rooms with hot and cold running water. 80 Bathrooms (w.c.) TARIFF. SINGLE ROOM from 5 frs„ with PRIVATE BATH from 10 frs. DOUBLE ,, ,, 8 ,, ,, ,, „ „ 16 ,, Room with 2 Beds ,, 10 ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, 18 ,, INCLUSIVE TERMS from 14 frs. Cook’s Coupons accepted. GARAGE. Telegrams: “ Rhinotel, Nice." TH. BAUMGARTNER, Proprietor. Branch House — HOTEL DES PRINCES, on the Sea Promenade. Inclusive terms from 10 frs. NICE. HOTEL ST. BARTHLLEMY. This excellent first-class Family Hotel, with up-to-date comfort, in elevated position sh^tere^froniw«nd*and^dust? W FuU South^ Renowned F^enc^C^i^ne^n^D^ei^Cook^g. Five o’clock Tea. Motor-car service between Hotel and centre of Town. Garage. Lawn Moderate terms. Special arrangements for a long stay. JOS. MEYER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. THE NICE-CIMIEZ. WINTER PALACE.’ QirM^+Kr first class and very modern. Finest and healthiest situation. Beautiful gardens. Splendid panorama. Tennis, Roller Skating, and other playgrounds. Garage. JOS. AGID, Managing Director. ORVIETO. GRAND HOTEL BELLE ARTI. CORSO CAVOUR. The only first-class House. In the centre of the Town. Close to , , p, fv.cwir’ai Tfonms facinsr Sovfcth and looking on the Garden of the Hotel. Central Garage ^gratis). Bepairs Washing Pumps. Electric Light everywhere. Entirely renovated. Every modem comfort. Private Apartments with Bath and Toilette. Restaurant. Table d’Hote. Pension. ORESTE & VINCENZO PONTANI, Proprietors. Cook’s Coupons accepted . HOTEL OSTEND. D’ALLEMAGNE. Arrangement, for &e Winter and Summer season. Omnibus. Electric Light. A g TRAC KE, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. OSTEND. THE SPLENDID HOTEL. 400 Beds. Finest situation, facing the Sea and Baths, next to the Palace of the Royal Family. All modern comforts. Arrangements en pension, 16s. to 20s. a day according to room. Cable Address : “ Splendid, Ostend.” Cook’s Coupons, Series V, accepted , CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 49 OSTEND. IMPERIAL HOTEL. First class. Old reputation. Best situation, next to the Kursaal, with view of the Sea and the Park. Renowned for its cuisine. Managed by F. FRIEDRICH, Proprietor. Also OSTEND HOTEL, NICE. Cook's Coupons accepted. OSTEND. HOTEL ROYAL DU PHARE. SITUATED FACING THE SEA. First-class Hotel, situated opposite the Sea and the Baths. Open all the year. English spoken. Every care taken for the comfort of visitors. Lift. Central Steam Heating. Electric Light. Cook's Coupons accepted. OSTEND. WELLINGTON HOTEL. Unique position on the Dike, facing the Baths. Between the Kursaal and the King’s Palace. Close to the Racecourse and Lawn Tennis ground. American and English clientele. Good kitchen and cellar. Rooms and Apartments. Sea view. Lift. Electric Light. Baths. Open from the 1st April to the 10th October. C. FRIEDRICH, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted . PADUA. HOTEL FANTI— ETOILE D’OR. PLACE GARIBALDI. First-class House. Entirely renovated. Modern comfort. Apartments with Private Bath attached. Rooms with Toilette with hot and cold running water. Sanitary arrange- ments. Central Heating throughout. Electric Light. Large Restaurant of great reputation. Garden. Garage in the Hotel. E. RIGHI, Proprietor. E. BELLONDINI, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. PALERMO (Sicily). THE EXCELSIOR PALACE HOTEL. First-class Hotel, installed with every modern comfort. 150 Rooms. Baths in all Suites and in many separate rooms. Magnificent Foyer-Hall. Reception Rooms. Restaurant. American Bar. English Billiards. Central Heating throughout. Open all the year round. Garage with private automobile service. ENRICO RAGUSA, Manager. A. PERCY TREWHELLA, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. D 50 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. PALLANZA (Lago Maggiore). HOTEL METROPOLE . On the border of the Lake. With Garden. First-class Hotel. Special arrangements for families. Pension terms from 7.50 frs. Rooms from 3 frs.! everything included. Central Heating and all modern arrangements. Open all the year. Lift. y GIOVAINNETTI, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. PARAME (Ille-et-Vilaine, BRITTANY. GRAND HOTEL. First class. On the Beach. 200 Rooms and Sitting Rooms. Splendid terrace on sea, and shady gardens. Private Park. Close to Casino, sea bathing, and trams. Lawn Tennis and Golf. Omnibus meets all trains and steamers. Telegraph : “ Grand Hotel, Parame.” 'Phone 6. Open from January till October. E. LAFOSSE, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. PARIS. HOTEL DU PALAIS. 28, COURS LA REINE (CHAMPS ELYSFES). ’ Family Hotel with moderate prices. Combining the old system of personal supervision bv the Proprietor with cosiness of accommodation and excellence of cookery. Elevator, telephone, electric light, steam heating, large dining room, drawing room, smoking room garden etc. Overlooking the Seine Embankment and Gardens, close to the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, the Elysee, Place de la Concorde, Tuileries, Opera, etc. Telegraphic Address : “ Palatel, Paris.” Cook's Coupons accepted. PARIS. HOTEL AYEN IDA. 41, RUE DU COLISFE (Rond Point des Champs Eiysees). A auiet homelike Hotel, with all modern comfort, such as : Hot and cold running water Hot Water Heating, Electric Light and Clock, Telephone, etc., in all rooms. Suite of Rooms with Private Bath and w.c. Lift. Smoking Room, Drawing Room, Billiaid Room, Large Garden. The Hotel is well known for its excellent cooking. Pension terms from 12 frs. Arrangements for long stay. Single Room from 6 frs. Double Room from 9 frs. Telegraphic Address : “ Avenida, Paris.” Telephone : 58449. Cook's Coupons, 1st grade , accepted. PARIS. GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE. New Monumental entrance, facing the Opera. Place du Palais Royal, Avenue de l’Opera, Rue de Rivoli. 400 Rooms. Suites of rooms with Private Bathrooms Steam Heating. Telephone. Electric Light in every room. Table d Hote at separate tables. Lift. Moderate charges. Every modern comfort. Cook's Coupons accepted. , CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 51 PARIS. HOTEL LONDON AND NEW YOKE. 13 & 15, PLACE DU HAVRE. Opposite St. Lazare Station. The most central situation in Paris. 120 Beds. Always up-to-date. No luxury, but comfort. Hot and cold running water. Rooms with Private Bath. English sanitary plumbing. Moderate terms. Telegrams : “ Londork, Paris.” H. DEHOUVE, Proprietor-Manager. Cook’s Coupons accepted . PARIS. HOTEL DE LA GARE DU NORD. 31-33, RUE DE ST. QUENTIN. CORNER RUE LAFAYETTE. Very comfortable Hotel. Most moderate charges. Single rooms from 4 frs. and upwards. Rooms for two from 5 frs. Lift. Baths. Steam Heating and Electric Light throughout. NOTE. — This Hotel should not be confused with the “ Terminus Nord.” Telephone : 440-01. Cook's Coupons accepted. MANDROUX, Manager. PARIS. HOTEL TERMINUS DU CHEMIN DE FER DE LYON. 19, BOULEVARD DIDEROT, PARIS. The only first-class Hotel opposite the station. Restaurant k la carte. Moderate charges. Bathrooms. Large and small apartments. Post and Telegraph Office. Steam Heat. Electric Lift. English spoken. Telephone : 924.03. L. BRANCON, Proprietor. PERUGIA. GRAND HOTEL (Brufani). The only establishment built expressly for an Hotel . Unique South position, with magnificent panoramic views. Perfect sanitary arrange- ments. Water from the Nocera Springs. Central Hot Water Heating, also open fireplaces. Private electric car meets all trains. All Apartments, as well as many Double and Single Rooms, have Baths and Toilet en suite. Electric Lifts. Home comforts. Moderate terms. Managed by the Proprietor, GEORGE J. COLLINS. Cook's Coupons accepted. PISA. JONNI’S GRAND HOTEL MINERVA. (Terminus.) First-class Hotel near the station. Central Heating. Lift. Garage in the Hotel. G. JONNI, Proprietor & Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. D 2 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 52 PISA. ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL. LUNG ARNO REGIO. lacing me aruu. Full South. First-class House in e '\ er y Bathrooms, and Suites with Private Bath. SCL^tYh or g ,^te!tofer ^ct sanitary requirements. Moderate charges. Biectne wgnr v s u the year r0U nd. Storage lor Motor-cars. Open all the ‘year round. Cook’s Coupons accepted. D. PIE GAIA, Proprietor. (Engadin^) PONTKES1NA. (Switzerland.) GRAND HOTEL KRONENHOF & BELLAVISTA. First-class Hotel, if >*« best position JP-He the cel^ fosegGl^. and centre of the finest walks Two! V“ fu.? 1 ish an d Am erican travellers. Private Apartments Lawn Tennis. Ice Kinks. Toboggan Kun. with Bath. M dWinter Resort. Open all the year round. b L. GREDIG, Proprietor and Manager. Cook’s Coupons acce pted . PORT SAID (Egypt). CASINO PALACE HOTEL. F “‘” ! “ Cook’s Coupons accepted. SIMONINI, Proprietors. RAPALLO (Italy). . . . nf arrival One hour from Genoa (Genoa-Spezia See Santa Margherita, the nearest stat.on of arrival. imperial palace hotel. First-class House. ^ eate ?i^pTlm°Glrdtn L TranquH.ituatto. al vfew'rfthe'enthe Light. Spring Water. toC L Sestri Levant. Arrival stat.ons-Santa panorama of the charming g . nd p apa n 0 . Omnibus at both stations. *^ W rarX.*T£Si. .MTHEKS CUBA « 0. MABAGLIAHO. RAPALLO - (Genoa). NEW KURSAAL HOTEL. Adjoining the Kursaal— Casino of Rapallo. 200 Beds. Open all the year. Modem construction on sea- shore, facing South. Music Hall. Concerts. Restaurant Francais. Bar at all hours. Auto-Garage. Post, Telegraph and Telephone Office. Gardens. Wood. Sea Baths close to the Hotel. Lawn Tennis. Skating. - Cook's Coupons accepted. S0C- DEL KURSAAL DI RAPALLO- CONTINENTAL SOTELS. 53 RAPALLO (Italy). VERDI GRAND HOTEL. RIVIERA LEVANTE OF GENOA. FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Finest postion of Rapallo, on a slight elevation, wit «h$uUy * qvdeYrooms. Beautifui and surrounding mountains. Bright warm and H eater. Electric garden and terraces. New installation. Eng charges Lawn Tennis. Enlarged and Light. Lift. Every modern comfort. Moderate charges, a renewed in 1907. SAMPIETRO BROTHERS. Proprietors. Cook’s Coupons , Series A.B.C., accepted. RAVENNA. HOTEL ROYAL S. MARCO. 16, VIA L. C. FARINI. Near station and Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. motor-cars. Large Douches. Garage with pit and water under pressure for cleaning garden. Central Heating. Swrss management. an( j ELQ ^ TONTINI, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. ROME. HOTEL PENSION CARGILL. VIA COLLINA 23 (VIA ELAVIA). Situated in the Ludovisi Quarter, near to the rests of the ancient Sallustian Villa. Full South. Communication with the principal tramway lines. Pension terms from 7 lire inclusive. Open all the year. 50 Beds. ROME (Italy). GRAND CONTINENTAL HOTEL. Patronised by the Roman aristocracy. One of the largest, most magnificent, and most le Hotels in g Ital ^; ® a ^nd and Douches to all suites, and in many separate rooms. Open all the year. Teleerapli attached. Arrangements for prolonged stay. L. BARBIERI, Manager. Cook’s Coupons accepted. ROME. EXCELSIOR HOTEL. IN THE LUDOVISI QUARTER, NEXT TO ROMAN HYDE PARK. First Class. The most up-to-date and fashionable Hotel in Rome. 54 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. ROME (Via Veneto, Ludovisi Quarter). HOTEL IMPERIAL. First-class Family Hotel in highest and healthiest position. Rooms from 4 lire, with Private Bath from 8 lire. Pension from 10 lire. ' Open the Whole Year. ARTHUR ATZEL, Manager. ROME. GRAND HOTEL MARINI. First class. Central situation. Full South. Electric Light, and Hot Water Heating in every room. Open all the year. EUGENE MARINI, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. ROME. GRAND HOTEL MINERVA. Open all the Year. First class. Central situation, near the Pantheon. Entirely renovated. Quiet Rooms. Apartments and Rooms with Bath. Moderate charges. Auto-omnibus. AUG. DELLA CASA, Manager. Summer Season — GRAND HOTEL SALUS, MONTECATINI (near Florence). ROME. HOTEL VICTORIA. At Home Abroad! LUDOVISI QUARTER, VIA SARDEGNA 34. Family Hotel of World reputation. Rooms from 4 frs. Pension from 9 frs. 150 front rooms only. Quietest position. Opposite the Borgliese Park. E. THIELE, Proprietor. ROME. THE ROYAL HOTEL. A most modern high-class Family Hotel. Situated in the highest and healthiest part of Rome, close to the English and American Embassies. 50 Salons. 80 Bathrooms. 250 Bedrooms perfectly appointed. Best sanitary arrangements. Lift. Central Heating throughout. Renowned for its excellent cuisine. A. VALT0RTA & CO., Proprietors. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 55 ST. BEATENBERG (near Interlaken). GRAND PARC HOTEL DE LA POSTE. SUMMER AND WINTER RESORT. . _ 4,000 feet above sea-level (Bernese Oberland), Switzerland ; first-class climatic station. First-class Hotel. Stone building. Every comfort. Situated in the centre of the beautiful Promenade, with a splendid view of the whole Alp chain, the ice fields, and the Lake of Thoune. Surrounded by a large shady park. Good cookery ^ attendance. Post, Telegraph, and Telephone office in the Hotel. English and Roman Catholic Churches. Physician. Moderate prices. Season, May to October 31. E1 ®? fcrl . c Light. . Central Hot Water Heating. Largest Hall. Lawn Tennis. Large Skating Rmk. Fine Ski fields. Telegrams : “ Parc-hotel, Beatenberg.” ^ B ^NN E R, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. SAINT CYR-SUR-MER (Var). PLAGE DES LECQUES. P.L.M. main line, near Toulon. One of the most southern positions on the Riviera, on the Peninsula next to Toulon. Ideal watering-place for the pure air, the sea, the sun, ana the quietness. Splendid centre of excursions. LE GRAND HOTEL. FIRST-CLASS HOUSE. Splendid view of the sea and surro_unding hills. All rooms facing South. ^ of 40,000 sq.m. Exceptional climate. Latest improvements, room. Excellent cuisine. Tennis, fishing, sports. P.T.T. No. 1. Private park Hot and cold water in every ST. JEAN-DE-LUZ. GOLF HOTEL. The newest. Full South. Magnificent view of the Bay and Pyrenees. Suites with Private Bathrooms. Two Gardens. Tennis. Electric Light. L. FOUBNEAU. SAINT MALO. GRAND HOTEL DE FRANCE ET CHATEAUBRIAND. Entrance from the Beach. 135 Rooms with sea view. Genuine Family Hotel. All modern comforts. Sanitary arrangements. Bathrooms. Electric Light. Auto-Garage, etc., etc. Open from 1st April to 31st October. Telephone No. 0.39. MAISONNEUVE, Manager. Cook’s Coupons accepted. ST. MALO. HOTEL CENTRAL— BENOIT. Entrance— GRANDE RUE 12. Dipldm4 du T.C.F. MMaille d’Argent. Grand Prix. The nearest situated Hotel to the steamers to England, Jersey, and Guernsey. Close to t he Post Office. Accommodation for Cycles. Dark Room for Photography. Omnibus meets all trains and boats. Rooms lighted by Electricity. E. BENOIT, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons , Series R, accepted. 56 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. ST. MORITZ. HOTEL NATIONAL AND DEPEND AN CES. Homelike Family Hotel. Quiet and sunny position near the Kurhaus. Dust-free. Every modern comfort. Central Heating throughout. Baths. Omnibus at the Station. Pension from 10 frs. Summer and Winter Resort. FR. WISSEL, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. ST. MORITZ. NEW POST HOTEL. HOMELIKE FAMILY HOTEL. MODERATE CHARGES. For particulars apply to— A. MARUGG. ST. PETERSBURG. HOTEL DE FRANCE. Great Morskai. Best situation in the Town. Opposite the Winter Palace, Ermitage, Foreign Office, and Newski Prospect. Tramway communication through the whole town. Rooms from 2| to 25 roubles. Dinners from 1 r. 50 k. to 3 roubles. Renowned cuisine. Large Reading-room with all European newspapers. Baths. Excellent Guides, and all languages spoken. A. 0RL0FF, Manager. Kept by A. S. RENAULT. Cook’s Coupons accepted. ST. PETERSBURG. GRAND HOTEL D’EUROPE, LEADING ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RESIDENCE. Most central position on the Newski Prospect. 200 Bedrooms from 3 roubles upwards. Rooms with Private Bath from 7 roubles upwards. Largest Roof Garden in Europe, with splendid view. First-class Restaurant and excellent Orchestra. Telegraphic Address : “ Europotel, Petersburg.” Under Swiss management. J. WOLFLISBERG-GIGER, Gen. Manager. A.B.C, bth Ed. and Western Union code used. Cook’s Coupons accepted. ST. PETERSBURG. REGINA HOTEL. MOIKA 61. OPENED IN 1911. First-class Establishment. 200 Rooms and Apartments. Restaurant. Grill Room. American Lift. Cook's Coupons accepted , CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 57 SAN REMO. GRAND HOTEL (HOTEL DES ANGLAIS). Strictly first class. Visitors nearly exclusively English. Position one of the best in Sail Remo. Terms moderate. Central Heating. Concerts. Dances. Golf Links. AD. SCHREIBER, Proprietor (Swiss). Cook's Coupons, Series W, accepted. SAN REMO. GRAND HOTEL DE NICE. First-class Establishment, with every modern comfort. Quiet position, sheltered from dust and wind, situated in its own large Park. FULL SOUTH. Electric Light and Water Heating throughout. Lifts. Homelike Family Hotel. Moderate charges. Auto-Garage. Private apartments with Bath and w.C. Telegraphic Address : “ Nicehotel, Sanremo.” For particulars apply to H. ELMER, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. SAN REMO. HOTEL DE L’EUROPE ET DE LA PAIX. The nearest and just opposite the station, facing the Casino and Public Gardens. Quiet. Suites of Apartments with Bath and Toilet. Entirely heated by Hot-water Pipes. Lift. Every modern comfort. Moderate charges, No omnibus needed. Auto- Garage. First-class Restaurant annexed to the Hotel. Managed by G. VIS MAR, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. SCHIERKE, HARTZ MOUNTAIN. HOTEL FURST ZU STOLBERG. G. m. b. H. Finest position, most wonderful view. 200 Saloons and Bedrooms. Private Bath and w.C. Modern comfort. Electric Light. Lift. Ventilators, etc. Open all the year. Winter Sports. Trout Fishing. Large Vestibule Cafe, with Billiards. English Papers. Post in the Hotel. Cook's Coupons accepted. Prospectus through the Direction. SEVILLE. HOTEL D’ANGLETERRE. Lately enlarged and newly furnished. Biggest, best situated, and most up-to-date Hotel in town. Cook's Coupons accepted . 58 CONTINENTAL MOTELS. Loetschberg— SIERRE — Rhone Valley (Simplon Line). Known for its Dry Climate. GRAND HOTEL CHATEAU BELLEVUE. Open all the year round. First-class Hotel in most charming situation. Entirely renovated, enlarged and fitted with all modern comforts. Large Halls, glazed veranda 50 acres of terraces and forest. Winter Sports. The finest skating on the Lake Geronde, only a short distance from the Hotel. Spring, Autumn and Winter Seasons. Eight miles good private Trout Fishing. Artificial Clay Pigeon Shooting. According to the Federal (Govcmmei ^ meteorological reports, Sierre holds the record for sunshine during the Winter. Englis Chapel, Post, Telegraph, Telephone. Pension terms moderate, and meals served at separate tables. Cook's Coupons accepted. ROGER VORUZ, Manager. SIRACUSA (Sicily). GRAND HOTEL. First class. Splendid situation, overlooking the Harbour and Winter Promenade. Opposite landing stage of Malta and Tripoli steamers. Close to Railway Station, Custom House and Post Office. Every modern comfort. Open all the year round. Garage. Telephone : 27 Inter. g COSULICH, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. SIRACUSA. GRAND HOTEL VILLA POLITI. View of sea, mountains, and of Etna Magnificent garden on the marble quarries of the Cappuccini. Electric Light. Central Heating. Omnibus to the station and to the Do not mistake this Hotel with the “ Casa Politi in the town. Cook’s Coupons accepted. G. KOCKEL, Proprietor. SORRENTO. IMPERIAL HOTEL TRAMONTANO. Patronised by H.M. The KING of ITALY, H.M. KING EDWARD VII. and many other Imperial and Royal Houses. Best situation on the Cliff, with a splendid view of the Gulf of Naples. Large terrace and gardens. Rooms with Private Bath. Lift from the landing place up to all floors. Electric Light and Steam Heat. Moderate prices. Q TRAM()NTANOi Propriet or. Same Proprietor — Hotel and Pension de la Syrene. Cook’s Coupons accepted. SPA. BELGIAN ARDENNES. GRAND HOTEL BRITANNIQUE. THE LEADING HOTEL AND RESTAURANT AT SPA. SPA. inn upiAL'iit u ii.vj.jji. It stands in its own extensive grounds, adjoining the English Church , and com £ a splendid view on the mountains. Apartments and Hooms with Bath and Toilette. Sanitary arrangements perfect. Warm Water Heating Electric Light. Garage and Stabling. Telegrams : Britannique, Spa.” Telephone No. 27. F. LEYH, Resident Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 59 SPALATO (Dalmatia). GRAND HOTEL BELLEVUE. First-class House, newly taken over. Fitted out with every modern comfort. The only House in the place with Electric Light. Situated close to the sea. Ten minutes from the landing stage and station. French and Vienna cooking, with Vienna cafe. Auto-Garage. English spoken. On parle Franpais. WERDEGG & BAUMGARTNER, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. STRASSBURG. HOTEL NATIONAL. Opposite Central Railway Station. First-class Hotel, most comfortable. Best situation, overlooking the beautiful Square.^ Hydraulic Lift. Electric Light throughout. Steam Heating. Excellent Table d’Hote and Restaurant A la carte. Rooms and Apartments with Private Bath- rooms. Electric trams to all parts of the town. Moderate charges. Conducted by the Proprietor— -J, FEDIER. Cook's Coupons accepted. * STRESA (Italy). r The Transit Station on the Simplon and Loetschbcrg Line, between Trains and Steamer on Lake Maggiore. The Beauty Spot on Lake Maggiore. t GRAND HOTEL ET DES ILES BORROMEES. 300 ROOMS. 75 BATHROOMS. SKATING RINK. BEAUTIFUL SHOPS IN HOTEL GROUNDS. First-class House. Best situation on Lake Maggiore. Finest panoramic view of Lake and Alps. Nearest to Borromean Islands. Mainly patronised by English and Americans. Magnificent Park and Garden. New very large Hall and Foyer. Excursion centre. Electric Light. Central Steam Heating throughout. Two Lifts. Perfect sanitary arrange- ments. Railway Booking Office. English Church in the grounds. English Doctor in the hotel. Suites with Bath- toilet Rooms and private entrances. Large Restaurant. Dark Room. Cycling. Fishing. Boating. Mountaineering. Tennis-court. Croquet grounds. Garage. Motor Boats. Concerts periodically. Cook’s Tourist Office in the hotel grounds. C ook's Coupons accepted. ROMEO OMARINI, Manager. STRESA (Italy). THE EDEN OF THE LAGO MAGGIORE. HOTEL MILAN. Well recommended Swiss House. Family Hotel, entirely redecorated. Fine situation and splendid view on the Lake. Newly fitted with Electric Light. Central Heating. Baths. Douches. Lift. Excellent cuisine. Pension from 8 frs. Omnibus meets train. Open all the year. Cafe Restaurant and Terrace. AUG. MULLER, new Proprietor, Cook's Coupons accepted. STUTTGART. HOTEL MARQUARDT. FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Beautifully situated, overlooking the Schlossplatz. Rooms from Mk. 4.50, including breakfast. All rooms fitted with hot and cold water supply. Telephone connection in every apartment. Cook's Coupons accepted. 60 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. TANGIER. HOTEL CECIL. First class, with all modem comfort and latest sanitary arrangements Pnlque position on the Grand Beach in the centre of the new town (live minutes walk from the per). Suites of Rooms with Private Bath, Toilet, and w.c. Spacious Dining, Drawing, Reading and Billiard Rooms. Electric Light throughout. Large Terraces. Kiosk. Tennis-court. Garden. Roller Skating. Excellent cuisine and choice W |f'“ m3 en pension Omnibus at the Pier. Interpreters and experienced Guides. Terms en pension from 10s. to 16s. . ,, Telegraphic address : “ Cecil, Tangier. & Cook's Coupons accepted. TAORMINA. EXCELSIOR HOTEL (formerly GRAND INTERNATIONAL). First class in every respect, with all modern comforts. Charmingly situated, with superb view of Etna and Greek Theatre. Baths, and Apartments with Private Bath and w.c. Ter- race. Garden extending over 20 acres. Garage Reasonable terms. E. INFANGER, Manager. Cook's Coupons accepted. THUN (on the Lake of Thun), Switzerland. The Garden City and favourite spot for sojourn in the Bernese Oberland. GRAND HOTEL & THUNERHOF HOTELS BELLEVUE and DU PARC. CENTRAL HEATING. KURSAAL. Season ; -APRIL to °°™BEIL Tennis Private Apartments with Baths. Excursion centre. Cook's Coupons accepted. ________ THUN. HOTEL PENSION ITTEN. First-class English Family Pension. Large Gardens. Glorious view. Perf^t sanitation Two Tennis-courts. Electric Light. Pension from 6.50 to 12 frs. Central Heating (hot water). New Swiss Chalet with Apartments, Private Bath and Lavatory. A. KRAHE NBU HL-ITTEN, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. TITISEE (Black Forest, 2,900 feet above sea). HOTEL TITISEE. with magnificent view of lake and mountains Trout ^hmg^ . deduction from a-. »«—« Schwarzwald No. 27. Telegraphic p T r “»‘ e f ^ m the Proprietor. B. WOLF. Cook's Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 61 TIVOLI. EDEN HOTEL SIRENA. Five minutes from the station. Specially built. Reading and Music Rooms. Baths. Splendid terrace. Restaurant, from which may be admired the famous waterfalls and temples. Electric Light. Central Heating. Open all the year. 30 Beds. ILGO PALADINI, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. TOURS (Touraine, France). HOTEL DE LHJNIVERS. Highly recommended to English and American travellers. Entirely renovated and refurnished. Private Apartments with Baths and Toilettes. The most comfortable home for families. Excellent cooking and most careful service. Auto -Garage. Telephone 0.50. Special Winter terms. Garden. Golf. LAURENT FREYNET, Manager. Touraine. TOURS. France. HOTEL METROPOLE. Highly recommended to English and American families. Opened in 1908. Modern comfort. Up-to-date. Private Apartments with Baths and Toilettes. 80 Rooms with running water. Steam Heating. Lift. Garage. Moderate terms. Cook*s Coupons accepted. E. AUDEMARD. TUNIS. HOTEL DE PARIS AND IMPERIAL. Of world-wide repute. Magnificent view over the Arab town from the terrace of the Hotel. Excellent cuisine and cellar. Latest comforts. Moderate charges. 100 Rooms. Vve. E. AUDEMARD, Proprietress. Cook's Coupons accepted. TUNIS. MAJESTIC PALACE HOTEL. Latest and finest Hotel de Luxe of the African Coast. The only Hotel with hot and cold running water everywhere, and Central Heated throughout. Unrivalled French cuisine. Daily Concerts. All rooms full South. Cook's Coupons accepted. f GRAND HOTEL DU PARC, Chatel-Guyon. Branch Houses 1 ROYAL HOTEL, 33, Av. Friedland, Paris. tGRAND HOTEL DE LA POSTE, Rouen. VEDRINE FRERES, Proprietors. 62 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. TUNIS. TUNISIA PALACE HOTEL. First class throughout. 150 Rooms and Salons. Apartments with Bath, etc. In Summer : DISENTISERHOF-DISENTIS, Engadin-Switzerland. First-class climatic station, 3,500 feet above sea-level. For Tariff apply to F. TUOR, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. TURIN. GRAND HOTEL LIGURE & D’ANGLETERRE. PIAZZA CARLO FELICE 9, AND VIA LAGRANGE 42. Opposite the departure side of the Central Railway Station. First-class Establishment. Situation full South. Central Heating. Lift, Electric Light. Telephone. Moderate terms. Only hotel in Turin with warm and cold water in every room. Rooms from 4 frs. CafA Restaurant, Bar, Billiards. THE MANAGEMENT. Italy. TURIN. Italy. HOTEL SUISSE TERMINUS. OPPOSITE THE CENTRAL STATION. UP-TO-DATE. Cook's Coupons accepted. TURIN. HOTEL DE LA Y1LLE & DE BOLOGNE. Hotel splendidly situated opposite the Central Rail- way Station. Full South. Electric Light and Steam Heating throughout. Restaurant known for its good French cooking and Italian wines. Baths and Douches in the Hotel. Moderate charges. Rooms from 3.50 frs. Pension from 10 frs. per day. Tel. Int. 1.24. L. GUERCI0, Proprietor. VALLOMBROSA (Prov. Florence, Italy). ALBERGO DEMAN I ALE LA FOREST A. 3,200 feet above sea-level. The oldest Hotel in the locality, in the centre of imposing fir woods and of vast prairies, opposite the old Monastery and its Church with daily service. 100 Beds. VINCENZO CIAMP0LINI. Also Proprietor of the Hotel Excelsior, Florence. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 2 . PALACE GRAND HOTEL. 1,805 feet above sea-level. The latest and most modern. 200 Eooms. 50 Bathrooms. Large Park. Tennis. Holler Skating. Golf Links, &c. Garage. ALBERT M0RANZ0NI, Manager. VARESE (COME) First-class Climatic Resort. Centre of Excursions to the Italian Lakes. 50 Minutes from Milan. 90 TRAINS DAILY. * Cook's Coupons accepted. *GRAND HOTEL CAMPO DEI FIORI. 3,608 feet above sea-level. Modern construction. 200 Rooms. 30 Bathrooms. Latest comfort. Glorious location, greatest panorama in the district. Splendid walk through woods. Garage. Tennis. Summer and Winter Resort. G, HERZOG, Manager. LIDO— VENICE. / Magnificent Seaside Resort, Sea Baths and Kinesitherapic Institute. Lawn Tennis- courts, Rifle Range, Riding School, Theatre, Kursaal, etc. Large Terrace and CAFE RESTAURANT over the Sea. Instrumental Concerts daily, April to October. EXCELSIOR PALACE HOTEL. — One of the Finest in Europe. GRAND HOTEL DES BAINS HOTEL VILLA REGINA [>A11 First Class. GRAND HOTEL LIDO J Special Service of Fast Steamers meeting all Trains. Auto-Garage Reale. MESTRE. Cook's' Coupons accepted. HOTEL DAN I ELI. Facing the Lagoon. Absolutely first class. Suites. Private Bathrooms and every modern convenience. Cook's Coupons accepted. GRAND HOTEL. First-class House, situated on the Grand Canal. Lifts. Steam Heating. Electric Light. French Restaurant. American Bar. Cook's Coupons accepted. HOTEL REGINA (Rome and Suisse). On the Grand Canal. Yery comfortable. Charges moderate. HOTEL VICTORIA. Near St. Mark’s Square. All modern convenience. Central Heating. Cook's Coupons accepted. HOTEL BEAU RIVAGE. On the Riva Schiavoni. Newly refitted. VENICE. HOTEL BELLE VUE ET DE RUSSIE. S. MAUC SQUARE. Family Hotel with every modern comfort. ARTHUR RU0L & SON, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted . 64 CONTINENTAL HOTELS - VERMALA (sur Sierre, Valais, Switzerland). FOREST HOTEL. 5 600 feet above sea-level. Reached by Funicular from Sierre Station on the main Simplon line. Best situated, and commanding splendid view of the Matterhorn, Weisshorn, Simplon, Mont Blanc, and the Rhone Valley. Open all the year. Summer and Winter Sports. Spring Water. Hot Water Heating. Electric Light. Up-to-date improvements. Table d’Hote at separate tables. Excellent cuisine and choice wines. Pension from 10 frs. in summer and 12 frs. in winter. Reduced prices in June, September, and March. Apply MANAGER. Cook's Coupons accepted. VERSAILLES. TRIANON PALACE HOTEL. 1, BOULEVARD DE LA REINE. 18 kilometres from Paris; 25 minutes' motor drive. The most beautiful and modern Hotel standing in its own grounds and overlooking the Park. Comfortable Apartments and Room’s with Private Bathrooms. First-class Restaurant— fashionable; five o’clock Tea. Tennis Lawn. Electric Light. Lift. Steam Heating. MARIN FREDERIC, Manager. GRAND VICHY. HOTEL DES BAINS. Verv first class, unrivalled for its position on the Park, opposite the Bath Establish- ment and the Drink Hall. All latest and modern improvements. Hot and cold water and w e in everv room ; great number with Bath. Complete apartments for family. Telephone. Electric Light throughout. Lift. Central Heating. Large garden. Garage for Automobiles. DUITTOZ JURY, Proprietor and Manager. Cook’s Coupons accepted. VICHY. HOTEL DE LA PAIX. On the Park. Lift. Close to the Casino and Thermal Establishment. Electric Light. Telephone. E. FLEURY, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. VIENNA I. Seilergasse 6. H. MAYREDER’S HOTEL MATSCHAKERHOF. VIENNA I. Seilergasse 5. (First-class fashionable Hotel of old repute, for over 100 years in the possession of the family.) Central position, close to Graben and Stefansplatz. Lift. Electric Light. Baths Telenhone No. 2160. Newly decorated. Rooms from Kr. 3.60, and Pension from Kr. upwards. Tariff in all rooms. Safe deposit. Renowned Vienna cooking. Gumpoldskirchner and Mailberger Wines and best Vienna and Pilsetier Beers on draught. Opportunities for shooting and fishing. Principal languages spoken. Telegraphic address : “Matschakerhof.” Cook’s Coupons accepted. CONTINENTAL HOTELS. 65 VIENNA. HOTEL VICTORIA. IV. FAVORITENSTRASSE 11. Telephone : 796. Near the Opera, the South Station tenns No ra e"7« charge SS Ught and service. First-class large Restaurant with Garden, daily Concert. A HAAGEN, OTTO STEPKA, Proprietors. Cook's Coupons accepted. VIENNA. HOTEL IMPERIAL. I. KARNTNERRING 16. Renovated during 1913 with every modern comfort. Cook's Coupons accepted. WIESBADEN. NASSAUER HOF. (Hotel Nassau.) With magnificent ® at ^^“®oms F supplied direct fron/the hot springs. Select home for Bath House and FnvateBatoroo PP ation Modern management.^ International Society^ World d^^ _ „ Naussauerho f, Wiesbaden. Cook's Coupons accepted. Golf Links. WIESBADEN. TennJlGroundg . THE QUISISANA HOTEL. Opposite the Kurhaus flM 'itooms gardens and terraces : apart from dermal Baths from own spring. Villas with ev^y^modCTnc^mforF.^First-c)ass Restaurant. Beautiful large Lounge ApdIy for Prospectus to the Proprietor, F. ROSER. _ . . .f TeleDhone : 119, 120, 454, 467. Telegraphic address : “Quisisana. leiepnone Cook's Coupons accepted. WIESBADEN. PENSION VILLA HERTHA-Dambachtal 24. Telephone : 4182. First-class Pension under ^^“H^^i^haS^rauna^^TeJ^'^tacluding afternoon in healthy situation near Woods, Spongy Kurhaus t ram Garden . M a„y Balconies Tea, from 42s. to 70s. per S*P a ™° “g Hot Water Central Heating. Electric lT|ht. K MS’B?thsfn the “""splendhi position for Winter. Golf Links near Wiesbaden. MISS R0DWAY , FRAULEIN MARIA ANDRE. 66 CONTINENTAL HOTELS. ZERMATT (1,620 m.). HOTELS : * NATIONAL (TERMINUS), SCHWEIZERHOF, BELLEVUE. Moderate prices. Pension terms. Grand Restaurant, end of October. Telegraphic Address : “ National, Zermatt.” * Cook’s Coupons accepted . Concerts. Open May 1st to Telephone No. 10. MAX OTTO, Manager. ZERMATT (1,620 m.). *HOTEL MONTE ROSA, *HOTEL MONT CERYIN, *HOTEL VICTORIA, BUFFET AT STATION. ABOVE ZERMATT : HOTEL RIFFEL-ALP (2,227 m.), Lift, Central Heating, Tramway. HOTEL SCHWARZSEE (2,589 m.) All held by the SEILER BROTHERS. Moderate prices. Arrangements for prolonged stay. Open from May 1st to October 20th. Doctor. Chemist. Concerts the whole season. Electric Light. * Cook’s Coupons accepted. ZURICH. CITY HOTEL. SIHLSTRASSE 7 & 9. Three minutes’ walking from station, no ’bus needed. Open 1912. Hot and cold water supply in every room. Apartments with Bath. Rooms from 4 frs. Pension terms (including room) from 10 frs. a day for a stay of at least five days. A. B0HRER, Proprietor. Cook’s Coupons accepted. ZURICH. # HOTEL SCHWERT. HOTEL DE L’EPEE. Situated in the centre of the town near the lake, with splendid view of the city, lake, mountains and glaciers. Suitable for families and tourists. Lift. Electric Light in every room. Baths. Open throughout the year. Boarding for prolonged stay. Omnibus and Porter meet trains. Library. Central Heating throughout, H. GOLDEN, Sen., Proprietor. * Cook’s Coupons accepted. ZURICH. GRAND HOTEL NATIONAL. First class, opposite the station. No omnibus necessary. Entirely renovated. Rooms with new elegant Private Bathrooms attached. Moderate terms. Rooms from 4 frs. Pension from 12 frs. G. WILD, Proprietor. Cook's Coupons accepted. AD VER RISE ME NTS. 67 ,o &/ Accidents of all Kinds, / FATAL or NON-FATAL, Insured against by THE ©6EAN IccidentiGuirantte Cirporation (LIMITED). Head Office: MOORGATE ST., LONDON. Assets ----- £2,500,000 Claims paid - £12,000,000 Special world-wide Insurances, for short periods, for Tourists and Travellers against Accidents of all kinds (including accidents at sea). For Premiums see handbills. The Ocean Corporation’s “ Leader ” Policy is an annual Contract based on wide and liberal lines. 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