MONTE SANT'ANGELO

town, Foggia province, Puglia (Apulia) region, east central Italy, on the southern slope of the Promontorio del Gargano, the spur of Italy, northeast of Foggia. The town grew up around the famous Santuario di S. Michele (Sanctuary of St. Michael), founded c. 490 over a cave in which the archangel Michael is said to have appeared to St. Laurentius Maioranus, archbishop of Sipontum. The bronze doors were made in Constantinople in 1076, and the octagonal campanile dates from 1273. Also of interest are the ruined NormanAragonese castle and the 12th-century Tomba di Rotari, probably a baptistery. A pilgrimage centre, especially in the Middle Ages, the town depends for its economy upon services to tourists and pilgrims, agriculture (cereals, olive oil, wine), cattle breeding, and wool industries. Pop. (1981 prelim.) mun., 16,500.