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Show OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY Italian Town, Industrial Center, Still Retains a Reminder of the Middle Ages. A mint i.s best known to travelers as the station on t lie railroad from Milan whore Lake Maggiore lirsi bursts into view. To Kalians it l.s lu st known for Its plantations of American corn, a novelty in Europe. Today, Arona is an intlustriai center, cen-ter, lint nIT In the northeast corner the castle of An Hero adds a touch to tlie' landscape which bespeaks medieval medie-val importance. The famous Ror-romeos Ror-romeos they who produced Cardinal de Medici, who hecaine I'ope I'ius IV dwelt in ancestral halls on the outskirts out-skirts of the village. At the Hotel Ueale, a talilet calls attention to the fact that Garibaldi was t ciic-st there in 184S. That "Arona, Lugo Maggiore," Turner's Turn-er's wonderful canvas, was not made ' from photographs can he gathered from Buskin's letter, in which he" says, "No such hills are. or ever were. In sight from Arona. They are gathered together, hill hy hill, partly from the Rattles of Oleggio, partly from above the town here, partly from half way up the lake near l'.aveno ami then all thrown together in one grand Imaginary Imag-inary chain." |