It has nothing to do with the mythical hero and king of the Aeneid evoked by its name. Evandro is just the evolution of the original toponym, Rocca di Vandra, already in use before the 11th century, indicating the village perched with its castle on the hill of Monte Camino’s slopes, between Aurunci and Mainarde, watching over the Garigliano valley.
Separated by only few kilometers. Enough to keep them divided for centuries before becoming a minimum distance between the two souls of a single municipality, formally born on May 4, 1811, in the middle of the French decade.
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