, together with the bishop’s palace to which it served as the private chapel1. S. Michele in Monte. On an eminence at a short distance from the town eastwards is the site of the ancient abbey of S. Michele in Monte. Dr. Kandler2, writing in 1845, describes it as ruined, but gives the plan of the… … chamber (Fig. 104). Since Dr. Kandler’s plan was made all traces of the church have been obliterated by the construction of a fortress on the site, and about the year 1854, whilst this was being built, the interesting discovery 1 Franceschi, p. 478. 2 ‘ Indicazioni per cose storiche del Litorale.’…
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