House & Garden 
TYROLESE ARCHITECTURE. 
II. FEUDAL. 
B OTZEN is now a thriving town of the 
Tyrol and one of the busiest. Situated 
in the geographical centre of the province it 
also lies in the most important valley. Over 
the chain of highways following as best they 
could the waters of the Sill, the Eisak and 
the Adige, a certain amount of traffic across 
the Alps has always made its way. Botzen 
was an important point upon the route. It 
still remains the commercial centre of the 
Tyrol, though unrenowned beyond the 
borders of that country. In arriving here 
from the north the traveler has left the 
Brenner Pass nearly sixty miles behind and 
finds himself on the watershed of Italy. 
Southern characteristics in the architecture are 
apparent. The life in the streets, the fruit 
stalls and gay costumes foretell the scenes of 
thronged Italian cities. No less than four 
streams and their highroads meet near the 
town ; and beyond narrow arcaded streets are 
wide mountain views and castles appearing 
on the nearer hillsides. The neighborhood 
of Botzen is indeed one of the best for the 
study of feudal buildings of the Tyrol and 
it is here that the examples considered in this 
article are chiefly to be found. 
A pleasant excursion from the town takes 
one across the Talfer brook and up to the 
heights of Eppan. On that elevated plain, 
near the village of St. Michael, is Castle 
Gandegg, one of the most beautiful in the 
Tyrol. The graceful masses that now appear 
above the fir trees of a well-kept park are 
not the original construction, for a dark ivy- 
covered wall half-hidden in shrubbery farther 
up the hillside recalls a former burg. The 
peasants tell that the fragment was part of a 
tower carried away in the year ioor bv a 
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