PALESTRINA, a town of Italy, in the Campania di Roma, with a bishop's see. It is the capital of a principality of the same name, and the bishop is one of the six cardinals. It was anciently famous for the temple of Fortune, being then called Præstesse, and seated on the top of a mountain, the ruins of which may yet be seen. E. Long. 12. 55. N. Lat. 41. 51.