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| South View of Buffavento Castle or Queens Palace. Image size: 19.3 x 14.5 cms. " ..... In my way to Saint Chrysostomos I crossed a field where perpendicular strata of stones run along the surface like so many foundations of walls. The convent of which this saint is protector, I found a large though mean building; some parts are of good marble, well wrought, and tolerable mosaic of variegated stones, with a great deal of gilding and painting; but nothing is of a piece. The superior had no records, which indeed none of them have, but he told me it was founded by the king's daughter, who built the spitia tis Reginas, upon the top of an almost inaccessible rock two miles further up in the mountains..........." |