Baltimore (CA 68) - Naval Cruise Book

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Duomo . . .Triumph oT FlorenTine arT Til From Rapallo a small group seT ouT Trom The ship To iourney souTh Through The norThern lTalian counTryside To The ancienT and beauTiTul ciTies oT Florence and Pisa. Since P' h I i isa was T e coser oT The Two The TirsT sTop was made There, To see The very beauTiTul and world Tamous Leaning Tower. Cur Travellers discovered, however, ThaT The Lean- ing Tower was noT The only aTTracTion To be seen in Pisa, Tor Th T 'T IT ' ' e own i se was a picTuresque and beauTiTul place, wiTh The CaThedral oT Pisa being equally as impressive as The Leaning Tower. Florence was The main aTTracTio ThaT The group saw The arTs and craTTs ThaT made The Flor- enTine culTure renowned ThroughouT The world and n oT The Tour IT was here iTs 108 l David sTi i il O 41 ET.: x , ,uf it i ' i l ii 4 i i X -Q 5 Q: QI:- .. Q i producTs soug by The world's greaT arT collecTors. Such sighTs as The CaThedral oT SanTa Maria del Fiore, The Pl- azza della Signoria, The UTTizi Gallery, The Medical Chap? els. and The Gallery oT The Academy, where VUQHY 3 lvlichelangelo's mosT imporTanT worlcs may be seen, IV1f3lU li ing The exguisiTe sTaTue oT David, sTill sTand TodaY 'n 6 Their glory and beauTy as muTe evidence oT The G99 when lTaly was The arTisTic cenTer oT The world. There was lusi Too much To be seen in Three days, buT OUF qallanf band made a noble eTTorT, and reTurned To The Ship QVGGHY QT' riched in Their knowledge oT world arT and wiTh memories oT a very excellenT and pleasanT Tour. i ii N C 15

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SighTseers ln mid-summer, aT The heighT oT The TourisT season, The workers oT France arose in general sTrilce in proTesT To The economic reTorms oT The new French governmenT, and caused some changes To be made in The schedule oT visiTs oT uniTs oT The SixTh FleeT To various porTs. The sTrilce may have been bad Tor France, buT iT was good Tor The BalTi- moreg we drew Rapallo as our non-scheduled porT. This gave us an opporTuniTy To see The lTalian Riviera in all iTs grandeur and beauTy, noT aT iTs cenTer and capiTal, buT in The small Towns lying along The coasT, Those Tiny Towns ThaT comprise The real charm and aTTracTion oT The area like, PorTo Fino, SanTa lvlargheriTa, La Spezia, and Rapallo iTselT. We Tound These Towns, seT in liTTle coves along The coasT, aT The TooThills oT The lTalian Alps, To be some oT The TinesT visiTed all summer, Their secluded beaches, sidewalls caTes and curvaceous ciTizens were souThern Europe as we'd always imagined iT, wiTh none oT The obvious com- mercialism ThaT marred so many porTs. We TelT ThaT Tour days was all Too shorT a Time To spend on our TirsT visiT To The lTalian Riviera. One Thousand lire To . . . i 1, .- V Q v , , . ,Qu Q - is .F Y.- . AV , sl - z,. my E . ,,, ,r -U, -- . , Fleef landing in The mounfains , BELOW: Sedan away- BOTTOM: Rapallo, and The sea i i i l i l l l l i l sn- l T- l l ax, ...

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IWW 4 ery T -.. 55556: 55933 72' 'R 'N7-N4 Palazzo Vecchio RIGHT, TOP: Pisa . . . Ca+heclral and campanile. CEN- TER: Ga+es of Paradise . . . Florence. BOTTOM: Bap- 'I'is+ry af Pisa. I-54' -Ifrquwwas 4 4 ,