Caserta
One name for three cities
From the magnificent hamlet of the oldest city, the original Casa Hirta, secure in the hills for seven centuries, before becoming Caserta Vecchia, supplanted in its main functions and abandoned by the vast majority of the inhabitants in favour of the new Caserta, corresponding to the current capital, developed in the plain below.
The new Caserta on the plain around the Lombard tower
The large and fertile plain crossed by the Volturno had been chosen several times, already in antiquity. By the Oscans and Etruscans, founders of the city of Calatia as early as the 8th century, and then by the Samnites to whom the 5th-century tombs found a few decades ago under the Royal Palace belong...
The ancient city to visit, Casa Hirta then Casertavecchia
The road opens out into the woods, among the fir trees rising up towards the sky.
All uphill, to arrive on the hill over four hundred metres high, where the view opens up to the sea of the Bay of Naples...
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At that time it was known as Miliarum. An area of Campania Felix at the foot of Casa Hirta, in the plain, where the bishop Vitaliano of Capua chose to take refuge as a hermit in the 8th century.