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Show OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY Italian Town, Industrial Center, Still Retains a Reminder of the Middle Ages. Arona is best known to travelers as the station on the railroad from Milan where Lake Maggiore first bursts into view. To Italians it is best known for its plantations of American corn, a novelty in Europe. Today, Arona is an industrial center, cen-ter, but off in the northeast corner the castle of Angero adds a touch to the landscape which bespeaks medieval medie-val importance. The famous Bor-romeos Bor-romeos they, who produced Cardinal de Medici, who became Pope Pius IV dwelt in ancestral halls on the outskirts out-skirts of the village. -At the Hotel Reale, a tablet calls attention to the fact that Garibaldi was a guest there in 1848. That "Arona, Lago Maggiore," Turner's Turn-er's wonderful canvas, was not made from photographs can be gathered from Ruskin's letter, in which he says, "No such hirls are, or ever were, in sight from Arona. They are gathered together, hill by bill, partly from the Battles of Oleggio, partly from above the town here, partly from half way up the lake near Baveno and then all thrown together in one grand imaginary imag-inary chain." |