fleurio

Updated: May 14, 2025

"But I have not yet mentioned the Fountain of Beauty, in the valley of Melanès, the fountain of its fertility the Fleurio, which flows in many small streams through the gardens, and supplies us with the most glorious water.... The river Fleurio bounds along the middle of the valley, and makes its fields green; it murmurs meanderingly along over a deep bed of marble blocks and stones, its banks garlanded with fine-leaved, white-flowering savin and oleanders; besides being overshadowed in many places by the most beautiful plane trees stretching out their high branches to each other across the little stream, which in its calm but fresh career, and its romantic meanderings, is a living image of a beautiful quiet life."

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century