Aversa
Aversa is a town with 52 813 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Caserta. It belongs to the agglomeration " agro Aversano " and was the first Norman County on the Mediterranean ( 1030).
Attractions
- The Romanesque Duomo ( cathedral), dedicated to St. Paul of Tarsus, with ambulatory and octagonal dome.
- The baroque church of San Francesco delle Monache.
- The Ospedale Psichiatrico Santa Maria Maddalena founded by Joachim Murat in 1813.
- The Real Casa Annunziata.
- The Benedictine Abbey of San Lorenzo, founded in the 10th century, with the Renaissance monastery.
- The church of Santa Maria a Piazza, founded in the 10th century, has frescoes by Giotto di Bondone.
- Other churches in the city harboring collections of paintings by Guido da Siena Polidoro da Caravaggio, Marco Pino da Siena, Pietro da Cortona, Pietro Negroni, Giuseppe Ribera, Cornelius Smeet, Abram Vink, Teodoro d' Errico, Francesco de Mura, Massimo Stanzione and Paolo de Majo.
Twinning
- Italy Pratola Serra, Italy, since 2010
- Italy Alife, Italy, since 2010
Sons and daughters of the town
- Raffaele Bianco, football player
- Domenico Cimarosa, composer
- Niccolò Jommelli, composer
- Antonio Ruberti, politician and engineer