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Answer for the clue "What makes Salerno a famous city ", 11 letters:
new orleans

Word definitions for new orleans in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
New Orleans ( , , , or ; ) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana . The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. The New Orleans metropolitan area (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
founded 1718 as Nouvelle Orléans , in honor of French regent Philippe, duc d’ Orléans (1674-1723); anglicized after purchase by the U.S. in 1803.

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 484674 Housing Units (2000): 215091 Land area (2000): 180.556266 sq. miles (467.638563 sq. km) Water area (2000): 169.658425 sq. miles (439.413285 sq. km) Total area (2000): 350.214691 sq. miles (907.051848 sq. km) FIPS code: 55000 Located ...

Usage examples of new orleans.

Perhaps when my book is finished and gone from my hands, I may take steps to become somehow a character in that grand roman-fleuve begun by other vampires in San Francisco or New Orleans.

The flight into New Orleans was unremarkable until I woke with a start, realizing how unusual it was to be able to stretch out across three seats to sleep on a morning flight into that city.

During the next three months, Bobby Joe traveled with his friend to New Orleans, Miami, Washington, D.

I cried when the call came from New Orleans that Deirdre was dead, and I'd never even known her or spoken to her or laid eyes on her.

Had she left this bayou haven and ventured out into the rest of the world, gone to New Orleans maybe, and had something happen to her that was so bad she had run back here determined to spend the rest of her life among the cypresses and the bougainvillea and the water lilies?

She is a very good teacher but she does not write to us from New Orleans where she must still be living if she is not dead.