Acri

Sicily; in Acri, Giuvali; and in Tuscany, Rome, and the Marches, Giucca.

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

Walking to Acri, however, by the old track, one picks up, here and there, conscientiously-engineered little stretches of it, already overgrown with weeds; these, too, break off as abruptly as they began, in the wild waste.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Acri is a large place, and its air of prosperity contrasts with the slumberous decay of San Demetrio; there is silk-rearing, and so much emigration into America that nearly every man I addressed replied in

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

For Acri, as Forbiger has shown, is the old Acherontia; the river Acheron, the Mocone or Mucone of to-day, flows at its foot, and from one point of the town I had a fine view into its raging torrent.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

It would never do to be laid up at Acri with heatstroke, and to have one's last drops of life drained away by copious blood-lettings, relic of

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

A driving road to connect San Demetrio with Acri whither I was now bound was begun, they say, about twenty years ago; one can follow it for a considerable distance beyond the Albanian College.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

On this river and somewhere above Acri stood, according to the scholarly researches of Lenormant, the ancient city of Pandosia.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

And even then, if he hails from Acri, they of San Demetrio will probably work against the project, and vice versa.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Not far from here, along my track, lies Santa Barbara, two or three huts, with corn still green -- like Verace (above Acri) on the watershed between the Ionian and upper Grati.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

I reached Acri after about two and a half hours 'walking.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910