CITTA DI CASTELLO, a town and episcopal see of Um bria, Italy, in the province of Perugia, 38m. E. of Arezzo by rail (18m. direct), on the left bank of the Tiber, 945ft. above sea level. Pop. (1931) 8,923 (town) ;
(commune) . It occu pies the site of the ancient Tifernum Tiberinum, near which the younger Pliny had a villa. Devastated by Totila, it soon recovered and was called Castrum Felicitatis in the 8th century; it oscillated between pope and emperor in the middle ages. Its plan is rec tangular with walls (1518) and fine palaces of the Vitelli, its Renaissance lords. The cathedral was originally Romanesque and the Palazzo Comunale was built 1334-52. Some of Raphael's earlier works were painted for the churches of this town, but none of them remains there.
See Magherini Graziani, L'Arte a Citta di Castello (1897).
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NOTABILE, a fortified city of Malta, 7 m. W. of Valletta, with which it is connected by railway. It lies on high ground, with extensive view. It is the seat of a bishop. The ornate cathedral is said to occupy the site of the house of the governor Publius who welcomed the apostle Paul; it was rebuilt after destruction by earthquake in 1693, and contains some rich stalls of the i 5th century. In the rock beneath the city there are catacombs, partly pre-Christian, but containing evidence of early Christian burial. Below the church of San Paolo is a grotto, reputed to have sheltered the apostle. Roman buildings have been excavated in the town. About 2 m. from the town to the east is the Governor's palace, S. Antonio ; and to the south is the palace of the grand masters of the order of St. John, in the public garden called Il Boschetto. Citta Vecchia was the capital of the island till 1570. See also MALTA.
