Emily and Madam and M. Montoni went to Turin and Emily describes the area as desolate and war torn.
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Henry Fuseli's "The Nightmare" (1781)
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Emily passes the summit of Mount Cenis as she is taken into Italy. It was the main route for crossing the Alps between France and Italy until the 19th century. It is one of the highest mountain roads of the Alps at 6,870ft above sea level.
The Pyrenees are a mountain range that separates France from Spain. The mountain range spans 305 miles and is older than the Alps.
Emily and her father, along with Valancourt, travel along the Pyrenees mountain range. These mountains are visible from the St. Aubert's home in La Vallee, and Emily holds great love for them. St. Aubert calls them "those distant and sublime mountains."
Now under the control of Montoni, Emily and her aunt live for a while in Venice. There she experiences a vibrant musical culture and gets the first glimpse into Montoni's schemes.
Venice is known for its canals---in fact there are no cars there! So, just like Emily, you can take a gondola through the city.
St. Aubert, Emily, and Valancourt part ways in the town of Arles. They spend "one of the most melancholy evenings they had yet passed together" as they mourn their upcoming departure from each other (56).
Fun fact: Vincent Van Gogh lived here for about a decade and created hundreds of paintings in this town.
This is where Emily's aunt, Madame Cheron, resides, and it is where Emily travels to live after the death of her father.
This is the part of France where La Vallee is located, where the novel begins and where Emily has been raised in her youth.
Fun fact: The old city (before the new one was constructed on top of it) used to be called the "Sleeping Beauty" because pollution had turned the city's walls black (https://www.udrive.com.au/blog/fun-facts-about-french-city-bordeaux/).