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Caroline Aqueduct (The Aqueduct of Vanvitelli)

The Aqueduct of Vanvitelli or Caroline Aqueduct is an aqueduct built to supply the Reggia di Caserta and the San Leucio complex, supplied by water arising at the foot of Taburno, from the springs of...

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Santa Sofia Church in Benevento

The most evocative monument is the Santa Sofia Church, a masterpiece of the Middle Ages. Founded in the 8th century by the Longobards, it has an usual plan, accentuated by pillars and columns (of Roman...

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The Certosa of San Lorenzo Padula

The Certosa of San Lorenzo is one of the greatest monumental complex in southern Italy and one of the largest in Europe. The building, initiated thanks to the will of Tommaso Sanseverino in 1306,...

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Real Belvedere San Leucio

San Leucio is a concrete example of how the Bourbons built new villages to experiment with industrial installations based on industrial autonomy. The site was acquired by Charles of Bourbon in 1750,...

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Archaeological park Elea Velia

The ancient city of Elea, which derives its name from the local spring Hyele, was founded around 540 B.C. by a group of exiles from the Greek city of Phocaea, in present-day Turkey, occupied by the...

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Archaeological excavations of Oplontis

In Oplontis, which in antiquity was a suburban district of Pompeii destroyed by the eruption of 79 A.D., a villa has been found that may have belonged to Poppaea Sabina, the second wife of the Emperor...

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Archaeological excavations of Ercolano

Dionysius of Halicarnassus attributes the founding of Herculaneum to Hercules, on his way back from Iberia, while according to Strabo the city was first held by the Opicans-Oscans, then by the...

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Pompeii Ruins

The earliest evidence dates the city’s origins to between the end of the 7th and the first half of the 6th century B.C. when the first tuff boundary wall was built. It became a Roman colony in 80 B.C....

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Paestum Archaeological Park

On the edge of the Sele plain, where Cilento begins, lies Paestum, one of the most precious archaeological jewels in Italy’s crown, famous throughout the world, in particular for its spectacular Doric...

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Palace of Caserta

In 1750 Charles of Bourbon decided to build the Reggia, or palace, intending it to be the ideal centre of the new Kingdom of Naples. The design of the impressive construction was entrusted to the...

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Historic Centre of Naples

The “womb” of Naples is the greco-roman historical centre: a chessboard divided by three main roads, the decumans, intersected at right angles by roads called “cardinals”. It is here that the pulse of...

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Cilento Vallo di Diano Alburni national park

The National Park of Cilento and Vallo of Diano extends non-homogeneously on an area of 181.048 acres. It runs along the Tirrenian Sea, on gentle hills, near raging torrents, then through caves and...

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Archaeological excavations of Ercolano

Dionysius of Halicarnassus attributes the founding of Herculaneum to Hercules, on his way back from Iberia, while according to Strabo the city was first held by the Opicans-Oscans, then by the...

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Pompeii Ruins

The earliest evidence dates the city’s origins to between the end of the 7th and the first half of the 6th century B.C. when the first tuff boundary wall was built. It became a Roman colony in 80 B.C....

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Real Belvedere San Leucio

San Leucio is a concrete example of how the Bourbons built new villages to experiment with industrial installations based on industrial autonomy. The site was acquired by Charles of Bourbon in 1750,...

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Archaeological park Elea Velia

The ancient city of Elea, which derives its name from the local spring Hyele, was founded around 540 B.C. by a group of exiles from the Greek city of Phocaea, in present-day Turkey, occupied by the...

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Pompeii Ruins

The earliest evidence dates the city’s origins to between the end of the 7th and the first half of the 6th century B.C. when the first tuff boundary wall was built. It became a Roman colony in 80 B.C....

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Paestum Archaeological Park

On the edge of the Sele plain, where Cilento begins, lies Paestum, one of the most precious archaeological jewels in Italy’s crown, famous throughout the world, in particular for its spectacular Doric...

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Historic Centre of Naples

The “womb” of Naples is the greco-roman historical centre: a chessboard divided by three main roads, the decumans, intersected at right angles by roads called “cardinals”. It is here that the pulse of...

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Cilento Vallo di Diano Alburni national park

The National Park of Cilento and Vallo of Diano extends non-homogeneously on an area of 181.048 acres. It runs along the Tirrenian Sea, on gentle hills, near raging torrents, then through caves and...

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