Sant'Angelo d'Alife
2 places
- Castles
Castello e borgo abbandonato di Rupecanina
Sant'Angelo d'Alife (CE)
A ghost village suspended on the cliff: 800 metres of walls, five towers and the empty houses of those who fled after the 1456 earthquake and never came back. The Norman Drengot ruled the whole Alife plain from here.
- Sacred art
Grotta-Eremo di San Michele Arcangelo (Sant'Angelo d'Alife)
Sant'Angelo d'Alife (CE)
Beneath the dead castle the mountain opens: a 60-metre gallery where the Lombards walled in an altar to the warrior Archangel. Darkness, dripping water, and a stone dome nobody expects down there.