Carinola
3 places
Sacred artBasilica di Santa Maria in Foro Claudio (l'Episcopio)
Carinola (CE)
Out in the fields, an Early Christian basilica with fourteen reused Roman columns and an apse where a Byzantine Madonna has been staring at you for a thousand years. On the walls, medieval peasants and craftsmen painted at work: the only portrait left of the people who lived here.
- Villages
Borgo medievale di Carinola
Carinola (CE)
A Gothic-Catalan borgo (old village) left almost intact and almost ignored: the bell tower with its dome of yellow and green majolica, the Renaissance loggia of Casa Novelli, and at the top the ruins of count Riccardo's castle.
- Sacred art
Convento di San Francesco a Casanova
Carinola (CE)
Tradition holds that Francis of Assisi himself stopped here, coming down the road that led to the sea. A silent cloister at the foot of Monte Massico, where time seems to have halted in the thirteenth century.