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Example sentences for: alps

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In the north, the snowcapped Alps and jagged pink pinnacles of the Dolomites; the gleaming Alpine-backed lakes of Como, Garda, and Maggiore; the fertile and industrial plain of the Po, stretching from Turin and Milan across to ancient Verona; the Palladian-villa studded hills of Vicenza; and the romantic canals of Venice.
From the Alps down to the southern tip of Sicily, Italy provides the most tangible proof that the world is indeed a wonderous stage.
Take the pretty excursion up on a hill across the river to Sassi, 10 km (6 miles) east of Turin, to see Juvarra’s Baroque masterpiece, the splendid domed Basilica di Superga completed in 1731 and the hilltop view of Turin, the Alps, and the Po Plain.
As its name suggests, this region of the fertile upper basin of the Po river lies in the foothills between the Appenines and the Alps at the French and Swiss borders.
Before then, despite the peninsula’s obvious geographical unity bounded by the Alps and the Mediterranean, its story is a fragmented tale of independent-minded cities, regions, and islands — and the outside powers who coveted them.