ITALY 



Capo ai Monte \ Naples 



'T^HE PALACE of Capo di Monte now 

 * the residence of the Duke of Aosta, son of 

 Amadeus, who for a time was King of Spain- 

 was planned in 1738 by Charles III as a 

 summer home. The architect was the same 

 Medrano who built, also at Naples, the fine 

 theatre of San Carlo. The palace, however, 

 came to a standstill in the political upheavals, 

 and was not finished till Ferdinand II was 

 reigning, a hundred years later. It crowns the 

 superb city whose situation is the delight of the 

 world ; and from the windows, framed in mighty 

 blocks of grey stone, the eye wanders over the 

 bluest of all seas to the island of Capri swim- 

 ming in light, to the purple mountains of 

 Sorrento and Castellammare, Amalfi and Salerno, 

 and to the far-famed Corniche Road. Nearer, 

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