Castel Volturno

Castel Volturno is a commune municipality within the Province of Caserta within the Italian area Campania, placed about 35 kilometers northwest of Naples and about 35 kilometers west of Caserta on the Volturno River. Castel Volturno was an agreement of the Oscans and then of the Etruscans, who called it Volturnum and became a exchange point on the street to Casilinum and Capua. Volturnum have become a Roman colony in 194 BC and in 95 AD it turned into reached by using the Via Domitiana and obtained a big bridge connecting the two shores of the river with the same call.

The metropolis decayed after the autumn of the Western Roman Empire, and, in 806, Duke Grimoald I of Benevento gave its port to the abbots of Montecassino. In 841 it become ravaged with the aid of Saracens. After 856, the Lombard bishop Radipert had a citadel constructed on what remained of the bridge. After a period below neighborhood counts, in 1062 it became once more given to Montecassino even as in 1206, Frederick II donated it to the archbishops of Capua.