Castro

Castro is a Romance (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Galician) word originally derived from Latin "Castrum", a pre-Roman military camp or fortification (cf: Greek: kastron; Proto-Celtic: *Kassrik; Breton: kaer, *kastro).

It may refer to:

People

• Castro (surname)
• Fidel Castro, former political leader of Cuba
• Raúl Castro, current political leader of Cuba
• House of Castro, Spanish noble family

Places

Chile

• Castro, Chile

Italy

• Castro, Apulia, a comune in the province of Lecce
• Castro, Lazio, a destroyed town in the province of Viterbo
• Castro, Lombardy, a comune in the province of Bergamo
• Castel di Castro, 13th century fortified city at the site of modern Cagliari, Sardinia

Switzerland

• Castro, Ticino

United States

• Castro County, Texas
• Castro Cove, an embayment of the San Pablo Bay in Richmond, California
• Castro Creek, a creek in Richmond, California
• Castro Street Station, a Metro station in San Francisco, California
• Castro Theatre, a movie theater in San Francisco, California
• The Castro, San Francisco, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California

Other

• Castro culture, Iron-Age, Bronze-Age and Celtic culture in the Northern Iberian Peninsula
  • Castros in Spain
  • Castro (village), types of settlements of the Castro culture
• Castro (clothing), an Israel-based clothing company
• Wars of Castro, conflict between the Papacy and the Farnese dukes of Parma
• Castro FC, Spanish football team