Gargano (ancient Garganus), a mountainous peninsula, the 'spur' of Italy, in the province of Foggia, jutting out some 30 miles into the Adriatic Sea, and attaining in Monte Calvo a height of 5110 feet. Bee-keeping is yet as generally engaged in as in the time of Horace. The district is visited mainly by pilgrims to a shrine of St Michael on Monte St Angelo.
Gargano
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 85
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