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Extract from the San Giovanni del Timavo Travel Guides:
Buses from Trieste to Monfalcone go to
SAN GIOVANNI DEL TIMAVO
, stopping just above the Gothic church of San Giovanni in Tuba, built on the site of a fifth-century basilica. A few metres away, the River Timavo swells and bubbles up from the limestone just below road level, at the end of a subterranean course of some 40kms. A stroll around the woods reveals numerous smaller springs, the water a strange deep green and icy cold. The mouth of the Timavo has long been seen as a powerful place; in the
Aeneid
, Virgil describes the water "resounding against the cliffs with a great sound", though these days most of...
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