Description: Sicile_17 1835 print BRIDGE OVER ALCANTARA RIVER (NEAR ETNA), SICILY, ITALY (#17) Print from steel engraving titled Pont sur le Cantara, published in a volume of L'Univers Pittoresque, Paris, approx. page size 20 x 13 cm, approx. image size 13 x 8.5 cm, nice hand coloring. Alcantara (river) The Alcantara (Sicilian: Alcantara) is a river in Sicily. It has its source on the south side of Monti Nebrodi and its mouth in the Ionian Sea at Capo Schiso in Giardini-Naxos. The river is 52 km long. The name Alcantara is of Arabic origin (al Qanţara - the Bridge) and refers to a bridge from Roman times found by the Arabs. Thucydides called it Akesines Potamos while its Latin names were "Assinus or Assinos" and "Onobala". Cantera was another hydronym adopted by Normans. Course The Alcantara has its source at an altitude of 1250m in the municipality of Floresta. On its way to the sea, past the north of Mount Etna, it flows through the municipalities of Randazzo, Mojo Alcantara, Francavilla di Sicilia, Motta Camastra, Castiglione di Sicilia, Graniti, Gaggi, Calatabiano, Taormina and Giardini-Naxos. Several thousand years ago, the river bed was blocked by a lava flow from Mount Etna. As the lava was cooled much more quickly by the water than it would have done otherwise, it crystallised in the form of columns. Over the next millennia, the river naturally eroded a channel through these columns, resulting in impressive gorges and ravines such as the "Gole dell'Alcantara".
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Style: Realism
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Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Original/Reproduction: Original Print
Print Type: Engraving
Size Type/ Largest Dimension: Small (Up to 14'')
Subject: Landscape
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