On a subsequent visit to the town in springtime, my wife and I took a twilight walk, just after our arrival, through its gloomy fortress streets, up to the piazza, where the Impendent houses lowered like bastions, and all the masses of their mighty architecture stood revealed in shadow and dim lamplight.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
The sea is calm, touched here and there on the fringes of the bays and headlands with silvery light; and Impendent crags loom black and sombre against the feeble azure of the moonlit sky.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds