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CAVA DEI TIRRENI

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 560 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAVA DEI TIRRENI  , a

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town and episcopal see of
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Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, 6 m . N.W. by
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rail from the town of Salerno . Pop . (1901) town, 7611; commune, 23,415 . It lies fairly high in a richly cultivated valley, surrounded by wooded hills, and is a favourite resort of foreigners in spring and autumn, and of the Neapolitans in summer . A mile to the south-west is the
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village of Corpo di Cava (1970 ft.), with the
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Benedictine abbey of La Trinity della Cava, founded in 1025 by St Alferius . The church and the greater
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part of the buildings were entirely modernized in 1796 . The old
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Gothic cloisters are preserved . The church contains a
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fine
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organ and several ancient sarcophagi . The archives, now
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national
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property, include documents and
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MSS. of
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great value (e.g. the Codex Legum Longobardorum of 1004) and fine
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incunabula . The abbot is keeper, and also head of a boarding school . See M .

Morcaldi, Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis (

Naples and Milan, 1873-1893) .

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