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MARE  , a small seaport and episcopal see of the Abruzzi, Italy, in the province of Chieti, 12 M. direct E. of that town and 105 M. by rail S.S.E. of Ancona . Pop . (19o1) 8667 (town); 15,523 (commune) . It is situated on a promontory 230 ft. above sea-level, and connected with the port below by a wire-rope railway . From the ruined castle magnificent views to the south as far as the Punta di Penna can be obtained.-ORVIETO The cathedral has been restored at various times, but preserves a fine portal of 1312 by a local artist, Nicolo Mancini . At one side of it is the Palazzo de Pirris with five pointed windows . The town occupies the site of the ancient Ortona, a seaport of the Frentani; it lay on the Roman coast-road, which here turned inland to Anxanum (Lanciano), ro m. to the S . The town suffered much from the ravages of the Turks, who laid it in ruins in 1566, and also from frequent earthquakes . For discoveries in the neighbourhood see A. de Nino in Notizie degli Scavi (1888), 646 . (T .