THE Cultural experience in Santa Maria Capua Vetere and Capua
L’ ANFITEATRO CAMPANO
In addition to being where the first school for gladiators was located. To this place is associated worldwide the name of Spartacus, the gladiator who from here, in 73 BC, led the revolt that for two years kept Rome under control.
IL MITREO
Dated to the end of the first century AD, is considered the oldest in the West and one of the most important Mithraic places. The solar cult of Indo-Persian origin penetrates in Campania through slaves and merchants arrived from the port of Delo.
CAPUA SOTTERANEA
During the Lombard era in 856 A.D., Capua was established in a strategic location near the Volturno river. This natural conformation made it a perfect defensive. Capua never ceased to be at the center of the wars for the control of the Kingdom of Naples. And precisely for this reason it was called “the Key of the Kingdom.”
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