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CHAPTER V.

ENTRANCE TO THE MOUNTAINS AND TO THE REGION OF RUIN—EBOLI—CASTELLUCCIO.




The buildings of the Locanda di Vozzi, at Eboli, are those of an old, suppressed monastery of the Riformati, of great size, nearly square, and not far from cardinal, but two stories above ground, and extremely well circumstanced for observation.

The front with the campanile (Photog. No. 124, bis) along the main road bears 23° W. of N. Its internal construction, generally, consists (block plan, Fig. 127) of a central interior court, surrounded by a double range of rooms with a corridor between, running right round the whole building. Two of the corridors, and a few of the largest apartments, are vaulted with brick or rubble arching; the others, as well as nearly all the rooms, are timber floored. The rooms are chiefly small, having been formerly monks' cells, and separated chiefly by walls of one brick thick. The external walls generally are 22 inches thick, of stone. There are four huge external buttresses on the south side, up to the level of the first floor, built after the shock of 1851, which shook the building a good deal. There is a stubbed old cylindrical tower at the N. E. quoin, and a small external terrace and building at the S. E. one. The