the: castle of the: counts o]? Tyrol, at mlran 



This castle was once a monastery, but about 1200 A. D. was changed into the residence 

 of the counts of Tyrol. The town near which it is situated is 1,100 feet above the sea and 

 IS one of the famous air-cure resorts of the Alpine region. The mountains around Meran 

 rise to 10,000 feet and screen it from all winds save those from the Mediterranean. A ten- 

 year record of sunshine and shadow in Meran showed a yearly average of 197 days of full 

 sunshme, 32 of slight sunshine, and only ten rainy and seven snowy days during the autumn 

 season. 



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