. Transilvania; i suoi prodotti e la sua gente. Con mappe e numerosi mali. Dopo le fotografie. S fallito, ma qui il bel edi-fice (è sessanta piedi di lunghezza e quaranta piedi di larghezza) si trova nello stato perfezionato in cui l'architetto lo ha progettato. Itdates del XIII secolo.* cinque gradini portarono in precedenza al portale, ma due solo ri-main. Le parti decorative del portale sono scomparse, perché, essendo di alabastro, la gente li ha raschiati via asa rimedio per l'ago. L'interno è una basilica a tre navate, divisa da colonne con capitelli scolpiti. La navata centrale * la cattedrale di Novara (elve

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. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. s failed, but here the handsome edi-fice (it is sixty feet long and forty feet broad) stands inthe perfected state in which the architect designed it. Itdates from the thirteenth century.* Five steps led formerly to the portal, but two only re-main. The decorative parts of the portal have disappeared, for, being of alabaster, the people scraped them away asa remedy for ague. The interior is a three-aisled basilica, divided by pillars with carved capitals. The middle aisle * The cathedral of Novara (eleventh century) has also two very similartowers in front, but much further apart than in the church of Harina.The facade is, as here, nearly as high as the towers themselves, but in de-sign shows a change towards a new style. The towers in each contain thegerm of one of the peculiar features in the church architecture of the time, —the open gallery immediately under the roof. 376 TRANSYLVANIA. ends in a semicircular vaulted apse; that at the termina-tion of each side-aisle is a mere niche.. CHlllCll AT MoXCHSDORF. Near Bistritz, I passed a large Saxon village, Heiden-dorf, nearly the whole of which was in ruins, having beenburnt down just before. The fire had begun at one end, when the wind was blowing from that quarter, and had it TO BISTRITZ. 377 not soon after suddenly veered, not a house would havebeen left standing. It is here the excellent wine, beforespoken of, grows. The whole district is full of salt and salt springs; not avillage but has one of the latter, and the mineral extendseastwards till the hard Jura limestone and trachyte set alimit to its appearance. Bistritz is prettily situated on the plain, just where arange of hills, covered with orchards and beech-groves, rise beside it. It has nothing of that medieval look whichdistinguishes Hermannstadt or Schassburg; the streetsare straight and broad, and nearly every building is ofmodern date, the place having suffered r

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1860
• bookidtransylvania
• bookyear1865