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VASTO (anc. Histonium)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 947 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VASTO (anc. Histonium) , a fortified town of the Abruzzi,
Italy
 , in the province of Chieti, situated high on an olive-clad slope, about a mile from the Adriatic, 32 M. direct S.E: by E. of Chieti and 131 M. by
rail
  from Ancona, 525 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901), 10,090 (town); 15,542 (commune). It is surrounded by medieval walls, and commands fine views extending to the Tremiti Islands and Monte Gargano. The churches of S. Pietro and S. Giuseppe have
Gothic
  facades. There is a medieval castle. The municipal buildings contain a collection of Roman antiquities and
inscriptions
 . There are manufactures of earthenware, woollen
cloth
  and
silk
 ; but the inhabitants are chiefly employed in the culture of the olive and in fishing.
The ancient Histonium was a town of the Frentani, and an Oscan inscription of the period of its independence speaks of censors there, probably
officers
  of the whole community of the Frentani (see R. S. Conway, Italian Dialects, i. 208, Cam-
bridge
 , 1897). Though hardly mentioned in history, it was a flourishing municipal town under the Roman
Empire
 , as is shown by the numerous
inscriptions
  found there. One of these mentions its Capitolium or temple of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. It lay on the line of the ancient road which prolonged the Via Flaminia to the S.E., and reached the
coast
  here after having passed through Anxanum' (Lanciano). It was, and still is, subject to severe earthquakes. (T. As.)


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