Sulmona

Sulmona, or SOLMONA, a city of Italy, 80 miles by rail E. of Rome. It stands 1575 feet above sea-level, has a cathedral (1119), and paper and fulling mills. Here were born Ovid and Pope Innocent VII. On a mountain close by stood until 1870 the 'mother monastery' of the Celestines (q.v.). Pop. 14,171.