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RAVELLO, ra-vel'16, town, Italy, in Salem Province, 3 miles from Amalfi and 1,227 fee above the Gulf of Salerno. Begun in the 9ti century, it is a popular tourist center will one of the oldest castles in Italy and an lltl century cathedral (1086). From many point; ir the town there are magnificent views <: countryside and bay.

"Guernica, the oldest town of the Basque provinces and the centre of their cultural traditions, was almost completely destroyed by the rebels in an air attack yesterday afternoon. The bombing of the undefended town far behind the front line took exactly three quarters of an hour. During this time and without interruption a group of German aircraft -Junker and Heinkel bombers as well as Heinkel fighters-dropped bombs weighing up to 500 kilogrammes on the town. At the same time low-flying fighter planes fired machine-guns at the inhabitants who had taken refuge in the fields. The whole of Guernica was in flames in a very short time."

The general location of this early town may identified by two buildings that still stand: t! Poe Shrine, a home built about 1650, and restor in recent years, and St. John's (Episcopa Church, the oldest part of which was erected 1741. In 1759, the Henrico County courthou was moved to Richmond, and 10 years later, we of the original town, which then numbered almo 600 in population, William Byrd III "laid out a: other parcel of his lands" as home sites.