House & Garden 
WALL DECORATIONS 
CASTLE CLES 
Bishops of Trent. The four wings enclose 
a court where lounging soldiers of an Austrian 
garrison wonder at the castle’s past splendors 
as they are revealed bv delapidated frescoes 
on the vault of the colonnades ; and doubt¬ 
less they give thanks 
that their own lot, 
however poor it may 
be, has not cast them 
into the dark cells 
which penetrate the 
sub-basement. Still 
more completely the 
Italian spirit shines 
forth in the facade of 
the Palazzo Salva¬ 
tor i (formerly 
Tabarelli), a city 
palace, said to have 
been designed by 
Bramante, and in 
many street-fronts 
of smaller buildings 
in Trent; while 
Castle Toblino, on 
a point of land ex¬ 
tending into the lake 
of that name, beside 
the road to Arco, 
illustrates the build¬ 
ings of the open 
country as it ap¬ 
proaches the Italian 
frontier. That so many feudal buildings of the 
Tyrol have survived to the present day is the 
more surprising when we remember the strife 
that surged about them during the Middle 
Ages and continued even to the beginning of 
the last century. By terms of treaties or force 
of arms European monarchs repeatedly took 
over the province; and quite as often did 
Austria, with the 
help of the Tyrolese 
themselves, regain 
it. The ruins of 
once redoubtable 
strongholds exist in 
every section of the 
land, and so com¬ 
plete is their decay 
that with difficulty 
are their walls dis¬ 
tinguished from the 
rocky heights from 
which they rise, and 
with which they 
have become one. 
The remains are too 
fragmentary to have 
an architectural 
beauty; but associa¬ 
tions of poetry and 
of legend reign over 
them undisturbed. 
Straggling herds 
wander through 
their courts, and in 
the shade of wild 
growths of trees, 
which creep up to their foundations, disport 
the disembodied spirits of former lords. The 
hobgoblins of cradle songs issue from them at 
THE COURTYARD, CASTLE CLES 
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