Castellammare di Stabia Attractions

Castellammare di Stabia (5m/17ft; pop. 73,000), a port built at the foot and on the lower slopes of an outlier of Monte Sant'Angelo, occupying the site of the Roman Stabiae, which was destroyed together with Pompeii in A.D. 79 (recent excavations; museum). The town is a favorite resort of the Neapolitans on account of its mineral springs, impregnated with sulfur and carbonic acid gas. In the Piazza del Municipio is the 16th century cathedral. In the southwest of the town are the harbor, with a long breakwater, and the spa establishments, with a ruined castle (13th century) on the hill above. In the Scanzano district, above the cathedral to the east, are the new Baths.