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Encyclopedia Britannica



RIVA

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 373 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RIVA , a fortified
district
  town of
Tirol
 , Austria, near the Italian frontier. Pop. (1900) 7550. It is a lake port and steamship station at the northern extremity of the Lago di Garda. There are two forts on the Monte Brione a little over
' Des Blut im Glauben and Aberglauben (Eng. trans., The Jew and Human Sacrifice, London, 1909).a mile north-
east
  of the town, and the old castle of La Rocca was reconstructed and extended in accordance with modern requirements in 185o. The Minorite
Church
  (1603), with altar pictures by Guido Reni and other Italian painters, is much frequented as a place of
pilgrimage
 . In addition to. its transit
trade
  and the entertainment of visitors, the
principal
  resources of the town are the manufacture of
paper
 , iron wares and pottery, the cultivation of the
silk
 -worm and the olive tree, and a considerable commerce in timber, planks and coal. Riva is connected with the Ledro valley by a picturesque road which passes in a
series
  of tunnels and galleries along the rocky and precipitous west shore of the lake.


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