Alife, Campania

Alife is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 7633 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Caserta in Campania. It is part of the Comunità Montana del Matese. The municipality is situated approximately 27 km north of Caserta, about 55 kilometers north-east of Naples on the Volturno. North of Alife is the Parco Regionale del Matese.

History

Located in the historic area of ​​Samnium, today's city has its roots in the time of the Samnites and the Osker - in the 4th century BC. After the Samnite Wars, the town was built as oppidum again. To 499 of the first bishop, Clarus reported. 1320 Alife has approximately 5,000 to 6,000 inhabitants and corresponds after the then circumstances of a major city. 1349 and 1456 it is then devastating earthquake that hit the city hard. 1914 Alife is connected to the railway network. 1995 her the title of Città (City) will be awarded.

Personalities

• The Acilius family, near Alife had a mausoleum
• Alexander of Telese, Benedictine monk and abbot in the 12th century chronicler
• Bulcani Marino (14th century -1394), Cardinal, probably born in Alife
• Theodora Petraliphaina ( 1225 - after 1270), Saints of the Orthodox Church, originally from Alife

Community partnerships

Alife maintains an intra- Italian partnership with Alatri in the province of Frosinone, as well as a partnership with the Polish Głowno in the region of Łódź.

Traffic

The ferrovia Alifana wrong no longer in the former extent. Meanwhile Alife only stop on the railway line from Santa Maria Capua Vetere after Piedimonte Matese. By Municipalities also lead the Strada Statale 372 Telesina, the Strada Statale 158 della Valle del Volturno and to the south the Strada Statale 87 Sannitica.