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Today we will introduce you the story of the amazing city situated in campania
Santa Maria Capua Vetere is an Italian town in the province of Caserta in Campania.
It rises exactly on the ruins of ancient Capua, as attested by the numerous monuments of the Roman era – above all, the Campanian Amphitheater, second in size only to the Colosseum – as well as by the etymology of today's toponym. After its former glory, the city changed into a peasant village with the name of Villa Santa Maria Maggiore (Villa Sanctae Mariae Maioris) and became part of the Capuana university.
There are several monuments in Santa Maria Capua Vetere like: the Amphitheater, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, the Mithraeum, the Garibaldi Theater and the Municipal Villa
The amphitheater is an elliptical building used for public shows, often used for venationes, fights between animals such as tigers, lions, bears, etc. and men. It is located within the municipal area of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, facing Piazza I Ottobre. A substantial part of its stones were used by the Capuans in the Norman era to erect the Castle of the Stones of the city of Capua; some of his ornamental busts, used in the past as keystones for the arches of the theater, were placed on the facade of the Town Hall of Capua. moreover, the amphitheater is one of the most beautiful and important monuments of Santa Maria Capua Vetere
The church of Santa Maria Capua Vetere was the first church in Capua which was built in 432 by San Simmaco (bishop of Capua and patron saint of the current Santa Maria Capua Vetere). the story tells that St. Peter reached the head with one of his disciples and appointing him bishop and entrusting himself to a small community of faithful. thus the first community of Christians arose and some time later the first stones on which the current church of Santa Maria Maggiore was built in 432, by San Simmaco. Its basilical structure with a Latin plan, with five naves, one of the first in that period, indicated the importance that the church of Capua had in the first centuries of Christianity. over the centuries various transformations have taken place which, fortunately, have not changed the original structure of the basilica. In the second half of the eighteenth century the finishing and decoration works of the church were completed, in the vault there were wonderful paintings damaged by the 1980 earthquake. Above the main altar, rich in marble ornaments, there is the canvas on which it is painted the Assumption of Mary into heaven, surrounded by angels. Over the years an underground crypt has been found where San Simmaco is probably buried. In the side aisles there are chapels containing important masterpieces of art.
The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere is one of the most important machine guns in the world. It is located near the Campanian Amphitheater and the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Capua. Since December 2014, the museum, the amphitheater and the mithraeum have been entrusted to the Campania museum complex. The mithraeum was discovered by chance in 1922, during excavations for the construction of a building. Capua, seat of the famous Campanian Amphitheater, saw the spread of the Mithraic cult during the Roman domination perhaps brought by the oriental gladiators usually linked to this cult. The construction of the mithraeum is thought to date back to the 2nd century AD. The underground structure is accessed via a flight of stairs which leads into a narrow corridor which served as an antechamber. To the right, through an archway, is a preparation room for the participants. On the left, however, is the actual mithraeum. formed by a rectangular room about 12 meters long by 3 wide, with a barrel vault and skylights. Places are arranged along the structure for the members who have participated in the rites. Below there is an altar with the Tauroctony behind it. Along the eastern wall there is a lunette depicting the Moon on a chariot while on the southern wall there is a marble bas-relief depicting Cupid and Psyche. Originally the whole room was surrounded by wall paintings depicting the initiation rites of the followers of the cult of the god Mitra but today almost nothing remains of those paintings. The barrel vault is painted on a velvety background with numerous green and red stars in the center of which there is a shiny glass paste which probably re-proposed the image of a starry sky in the light of the torches of the adepts.
On 28 October 1864 the town hall of Santa Maria Capua Vetere announced a design competition for the construction of a public theater, as the municipality was determined to increase its prestige and lacked any permanent theater unlike cities with a more consolidated tradition such as Caserta but above all Capua. 17 projects were presented, 8 of which were accepted and taken into consideration by the specially appointed Commission; none of these, however, fully responded to the indications of the announcement. For this reason, the Commission did not choose any of the projects presented but reserved the possibility of appointing an architect, among those competing, to whom to entrust the design according to the rules set out in the programme. The choice fell on the architect Luigi Della Corte who "zealously responding to the invitation, presented on 18 June 1865 a modified topographical plan and a new estimate of the expenses". The works for the construction of the building should have begun on 1 January 1867 but it was not possible to find an entrepreneur who, due to the expected price, would want to outsource the work. After about twenty years, on March 1, 1887, another competition was announced for a project with similar characteristics and, among the projects presented, that of Antonio Curri was chosen which was inspired by the Opéra Garnier in Paris. The works, which began on 13 August 1889, were awarded to the D'Agostino and Casella firm of Salerno and were completed within seven years. The total expenditure, originally estimated at 200,000 lire, turned out to be 450,000 lire when the work was completed, more than double what was initially foreseen. On 12 April 1896 the theatre, named after Giuseppe Garibaldi also due to the importance of the Battle of the Volturno in the process of the unification of Italy, was inaugurated with the staging of La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by maestro Vincenzo Grandine.
As already mentioned, we find the municipal villa, where we find a small area dedicated to children, the jogging area (where people breathe clean air due to the presence of many trees) and the dog area where the dog owners bring sachets and scoops for pick up their dog's droppings