Palestrina, an Italian town, 22 m. SE. of Rome, on a slope of the Apennines, 2546 ft. above sea-level, on the site of the ancient Præneste, with the remains of Cyclopean walls, with a palace of the Barberini (q.v.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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