"I have been here fourteen years next Easter, and I have never once been in Ravenna in all that time, nor, indeed, further away from this church than just a stroll within the edge of the Pineta." "That is the Pineta we see from this window, of course, Padre mio.

What a lovely view of it! And how beautiful it is! Where does that road go to, Padre?
To Venice ?" "No, figliuola mia.

It goes in exactly the opposite direction, southwards, to Cervia.

The Venice road lies away to the northward, through the wood that you can see on the furthest horizon.

It was by that road I came to Ravenna.