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21 unusual facts about Santa Maria Capua Vetere


A.S.D. S.F. Gladiator 1912

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica San Felice Gladiator 1912 or simply Gladiator is an Italian association football club, based in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Campania.

Amphitheatre

The three largest Roman amphitheatres in the world in order of size are the Colosseum, the Amphitheatre Campania and the Amphitheatre of El Djem.

Andrea Acciaioli

Andrea Acciaioli was an Italian noblewoman, as the Countess of Altavilla in the 14th century.

Sometime after 1358 and before 1362 she then married Bartolomeo II of Capua, Count of Altavilla.

Antonio Sicurezza

Exceptionally, in August 1978 Antonio Sicurezza does not go to Santa Maria Capua Vetere for the annual meeting of the Assumption.

Bellona, Campania

When the Saracens destroyed the ancient Capua in 841, some of their inhabitants moved to the Palmobara hill (the modern Bellon's frazione of Triflisco) founding the town of Sicopoli.

Capua

Outside the town, in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, there is the amphitheatre, built in the time of Augustus, restored by Hadrian and dedicated by Antoninus Pius, as the inscription over the main entrance recorded.

A new city was built in 856, but at some distance from the former site, where another town later appeared under the name of Santa Maria Capua Vetere ("Capua the Old").

Caserta railway station

From the bus station at the nearby underground car park, many buses leave for neighboring destinations such as Capodrise, Portico di Caserta, Curti, Capua, Santa Maria Capua Vetere and many others.

Errico Malatesta

Malatesta was born to a family of middle-class landowners in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy (in the province of Caserta) on December 14, 1853.

Ferrovia Alifana

The company was inaugurated on March 30, 1913, with a first service held on the line Naples P.zza Carlo III Station-Santa Maria Capua Vetere/S.Andrea dei Lagni-Biforcazione-Capua (43 km), with 11,000 V 25 Hz monophase AC electric traction.

Gaetano Esposito

He did get commissions in the last decade of the 19th century to decorate the Caffè Gambrinus in Naples, the ceiling (1895) of the Garibaldi Communal theater at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, and the ceiling (1897-1898) of the refurbished Palazzo della Borsa in Naples where he painted allegories of work and history.

Giorgio Porreca

He founded and directed until his death the Italian chess magazine Scacco!, published in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, a town near Naples.

Landulf I of Capua

The ruins of that city are all that is left of "Old Capua" (see Santa Maria Capua Vetere).

Macerata Campania

Macerata Campania borders the following municipalities: Casagiove, Casapulla, Curti, Marcianise, Portico di Caserta, Recale, Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

Pandenulf of Capua

The bishop of Teano and the abbot of Montecassino urged John to resist the Capuan count, but John, wishing to retain his loyalty and to satisfy both claimants, consecrated Landulf as bishop of Old Capua, now called Santa Maria Capua Vetere, and affirmed Landenful as bishop of New Capua.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capua

The episcopal see was moved there; later the old city, growing around the ancient basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, was repopulated and called Santa Maria di Capua (current Santa Maria Capua Vetere).

San Tammaro

San Tammaro borders the following municipalities: Capua, Casal di Principe, Casaluce, Frignano, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Santa Maria la Fossa, Villa di Briano.

Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli

Despite having Naples in its name and some facilities in that city, it mainly developed in the territory of the province of Caserta particularly, including Caserta itself, Aversa, Capua, Marcianise, Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

Sulla's second civil war

The beaten Norbanus withdrew with the remnants of his army to Capua and Sulla was stopped in his pursuit by the second Consul, Scipio.

Virginio Merola

Virginio Merola (born February 14, 1955 in Santa Maria Capua Vetere) is an Italian politician.