San Prisco
3 places
History & archaeologyMausoleo delle Carceri Vecchie
San Prisco (CE)
For centuries the peasants swore that here, inside this brick drum on the Appia, the gladiators waited in chains for their turn in the arena. It was in fact an imperial tomb of the 1st century, and above the ancient entrance somebody built a chapel.
- Sacred art
Sacello di Santa Matrona
San Prisco (CE)
At the end of the right aisle of an ordinary parish church you look up and the ceiling bursts into a sky of gold and lapis lazuli: 5th-century mosaics with Christ and the symbols of the Evangelists, among the oldest in Campania. Almost nobody knows they are there.
- Hiking
Monte Tifata e i ruderi del santuario di Diana
San Prisco (CE)
The mountain sacred to Diana Tifatina, where the holm oaks of the sacred wood gave the mountain its name: you climb among ruins that the shepherds still call the temple of Jupiter, and from the summit cross the Capuan plain opens all the way to the sea.