Show THE BEAUTIFUL wo place of bums in the whale world more beautiful than this writes william sharpe in the gar den of the sun in century every one has heard of girgenti as of syra cuse before coming to sicily the most beautiful city of antiquity has left an enduring name an if the gir benti of to day be tar from the agri bentum of roman splendor and still further from the of green beauty and magnificence it is till nobly worth seeing even the least responsive imagination can hardly fall to apprehend some idea of what this town must have been of old when with its vast extent and over inhabitants looked out across the dark b ue waters of the greek sea or mare africano from a lordly wll berness of temples and cent buildings of all kinds to day it Is worth a pilgrimage from the ends of the earth there is perhaps no place of ruin in the whole world more beautiful than this to see it as the present writer last saw it in a gold en sunset glow with the great temples gleaming like yellow ivory and the town itself of a dusky gold and the sea beyond and uplands and moun bains behind irritated with a serene i glory of light is to see what will be tor life an unforgettable impression an ever deeply moving remembrance to localize the three loveliest views in sicily and I 1 fancy that most trav elers would agree with me I 1 should i specify that from the terrace of the hotel timeo at taormina that from the monastery hostelry of madonna del tindaro over daris and the aeolian isles and that from the ter race of the hotel belvidere on the bouth wall of girgenti looking out on the lovely temples the beautiful up lands and slopes and the blue sea washing porto below |