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See also:CAPUA (anc. See also:Casilinum;, a See also:town and archiepiscopal see of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Caserta, 7 M. W. by See also:rail from the town oI Caserta. Pop. (1901) 14
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It was erected in 856 by See also:Bishop Landulf on the site of See also:Casilinum (q.v.) after the destruction of the See also:ancient See also:Capua by the See also:Saracens in 84o, but it only occupies the See also:Ate of the See also:original pre-See also:Roman See also:town on the See also:left (See also:south) See also:bank of the See also:river
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The See also:cathedral of S
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Stefano, erected in 856, has a handsome See also:atrium and a lofty Lombard campanile, and a (modernized) interior with three aisles; both it and the atrium have ancient See also:granite columns
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The Romanesque See also:crypt, with ancient columns, has also been restored
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It has a See also:fine See also:paschal See also:candlestick, and the fragments of a See also:pulpit with See also:marble See also:mosaic of the r3th See also:century
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There are also preserved in the cathedral a fine Exultet See also:roll and an evangelarium of the end of the 12th century, See also:bound in See also:bronze decorated with See also:gold See also:filigree and enamels
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The mosaics of the beginning of the 12th century in the apses of the cathedral and of S
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Benedetto, were destroyed about 1720 and 1620 respectively
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The small See also: This was demolished in 1557 . The statues with which it was decorated were contemporary imitations of classical sculptures . Some of them are still preserved in the Museo Campano (E . Bertaux, L'See also:Art clans l'Italie meridionale, See also:Paris, 1904, i . 707) . The Museo Campano also contains a considerable collection of antiquities from the ancient Capua . Capua changed hands frequently during the See also:middle ages . One of the most memorable facts in its See also:history is the terrible attack made on it in 15or by See also:Caesar See also:Borgia, who had entered the town by treachery, in which 5000 lives were sacrificed . It remained a See also:part of the See also:kingdom of See also:Naples until the 2nd of See also:November 186o, when, a See also:month after the See also:battle of the Volturno, it surrendered to the See also:Italian troops . (T . |
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