Song and dance of Spanish origin, which arrived in Brazil through Portugal.
1The railway line linking St Moritz and Tirano in Italy was declared a Unesco World Heritage site in 2008.
2This last takes its title from a village in the neighbourhood of Tirano, where a table-wine is chiefly grown.
3In favourable weather the whole journey from Tirano would have occupied at least four days, with scanty halts at night.
4The district where the wine of Valtellina is grown extends, roughly speaking, from Tirano to Morbegno, a distance of some fifty-four miles.
5Sculptured figures of the sun and moon, such as I have already mentioned, are found near Caycara, at the Cerro del Tirano.
6The Italian revenue derives a large profit from the frontier dues paid at the gate between Tirano and Poschiavo on the Bernina road.