Civita' Castellana, a town of Central Italy, 25 miles N. of Rome by the old Flaminian Road, on a plateau of volcanic tufa above the Treja. It has a handsome cathedral (1210), and a citadel built under Alexander VI., now a state-prison. Pop. 4251. In the neighbourhood are remains of the Etruscan Falerii.
Civita' Castellana
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 273
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