CA STELLAMARE, (It., sea castle). A leading city and seaport in south Italy, 17 miles southeast of Naples (Nap: Italy, 3 7). On account of its cool, healthy climate, delightful walks, sea-ha thing, and sulphur springs, it is a summer resort of the Neapolitans, and a spring and autumn resort for foreigners. On the hill to the south are the ruins of (lie castle to wbieh the town owes its origin and its name—built in the Thirteenth Century by Fin peror Frederick 11. and nude stronger with towers and walls by Charles I. of Anjou. The Villa Quisisana. now municipal property and fitted up as a hotel, is on the site of a house erected by Charles 11. of Anjou and occupied by King Ladislas and his sister Joanna II. dur ing the plague in Naples. In 1820 Ferdinand I. restored the building and gave it its present name. The park belonging to the villa is de lightful, and from Mount Coppola. up whose slopes wind beautiful shady paths, is an en traneing view of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples. Short, interesting excursions are made to Mount Faito, which commands a view of the olive-clad peninsula of Sorrento, the islands of the Sirens. Capri, and Mount Saint Angelo,
the highest point near the bay. which is crowned oy the ruins of the chapel of San Michele. Cas tellani:Ire has a technical school, a theatre, an excellent fortified harbor, and a large royal ar senal for the building of war-ships. The principal imports are grain and iron. the principal exports wine and fruit. The fisheries are important. and there are macaroni. snap. leather, and cotton factories. Population (commune). in ISSI, 33, 000; in 1901, 32,841. Castellamare occupies the site of the ancient Stabia-. N•hieli was desolated by Sulla during the c;oeial War, and which, with Pompeii, was destroyed in .t.n. 79 by lava from esuvius. The elder Pliny perished here while watching the eruption. Here, in 1799. the French general Macdonald defeated the allied English and Neapolitan forces.