MONTE  SANT' ANGELO, a

town of Apulia, Italy, in the province of Foggia, 10 m . N. of Manfredonia by road, 2765 ft. above sea-level, on the southern slopes of Monte Gargano . Pop . (19o1), 17,369 (town); 21,997 (commune) . It has a castle and a famous ' This has been demonstrated by O . Richter, Ober antike Steinmetzzeichen (Berlin, 1885), pp . 43-51 . sanctuary of S . Michele, founded in 491 over a cave in which the archangel is said to have appeared to S . Laurentius, arch-bishop of Sipontum; the bronze doors, made in Constantinople, bear the date ro76 . The octagonal campanile dates from 1273 . The portal of S .

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Maggiore is noteworthy . The Tomba di Rotari is a domed building of the Norman period . To the north lies the highest point of the Monte Gargano (346o ft.) . Strabo speaks of an oracle of Calchas on the top of the mountain, and a healing spring at Podalirius at the bottom, 12 M. from the sea . See S . Beltramelli, Il Gargano (Bergamo, 1907) .