Calvi Risorta
3 places
- History & archaeology
Antica Cales
Calvi Risorta (CE)
At Calvi Risorta rests Cales, the town that gave its name to a wine praised by the Romans, with amphitheatre, baths and a theatre immersed in the Caserta countryside.
- Sacred art
Grotta dei Santi
Calvi Risorta (CE)
In the tufo (volcanic tuff) belly above the Rio dei Lanzi, sixty life-size saints have been staring at you out of the dark for a thousand years. A rock-cut chapel frescoed from the 10th to the 13th century, a stone's throw from ancient Cales.
- Sacred art
Grotta delle Fornelle
Calvi Risorta (CE)
It was a Roman cistern, then it became a church and a cemetery carved into the tufo (volcanic tuff): on the far wall a monumental Ascension keeps watch over tombs hollowed out of the rock.