Sessa Aurunca
6 places
◆ History & archaeologySessa Aurunca (Ponte Ronaco, teatro, Settimana Santa)
Sessa Aurunca
The second Roman theatre of Campania, the Romanesque cathedral built from the stones of ancient temples, and the hooded rites of Settimana Santa (Holy Week): a city that lives on memory.
◆ CastlesCastello di Sessa Aurunca (Ducale)
Sessa Aurunca (CE)
The ducal castle of Sessa Aurunca, born in the Lombard age on the ancient acropolis, today safeguards the mosaics and marbles that resurfaced from the city's Roman theatre.
History & archaeologyPonte Real Ferdinando sul Garigliano
Sessa Aurunca (CE)
On 10 May 1832 the king climbed to the middle of the span and ordered two squadrons of lancers to trot across it, followed by sixteen artillery trains: Italy's first iron-chain suspension bridge had to prove it was not afraid. It is still there, with its cast-iron sphinxes.
History & archaeologyEx centrale nucleare del Garigliano
Sessa Aurunca (CE)
The white sphere of the reactor appears out of nowhere among the fields of the Garigliano: one of Italy's first nuclear power stations, switched on in 1964, shut down in 1982, and today being dismantled piece by piece. A fossil of a future that never arrived.
- ◆ Street art
Borgo dipinto di Valogno
Sessa Aurunca (CE)
A tiny hamlet of Sessa Aurunca amid the woods of Roccamonfina, Valogno answered depopulation with colour, painting the walls, vaults and balconies of its houses with dozens of works.
- ◆ History & archaeology
Ponte Ronaco (Ponte Auruncus)
Sessa Aurunca (CE)
Twenty-one Roman arches striding across an entire valley, 176 metres of viaduct built under Trajan. On the basalt paving you still walk on stones trodden two thousand years ago, among brambles and silence.