Castellammare di Stabia
/ (Italian kastɛllamˈmaːre di ˈstabja) /
noun
a port and resort in SW Italy, in Campania on the Bay of Naples: site of the Roman resort of Stabiae, which was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 ad Pop: 66 929 (2001)
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