Teano. The Cathedral. The main facade

The military shrine of Mignano Montelungo is a military cemetery located in Campania, which contains the remains of 974 Italian soldiers, of which 784 who died during the Second World War in the battles of Montelungo and Cassino [1], while the rest come from the old cemetery of war of Mignano. Near Mignano Monte Lungo, between 8 and 16 December 1943, there was a battle between Italian regular units and the German army, in the liberation war of southern Italy. Built on the eastern slopes of Mount Lungo, it is about two kilometers from the municipality of Mignano Monte Lungo, in the province of Caserta, along the Via Casilina on the border with Lazio and Molise. From the entrance gate a staircase leads to the main building, at the center of which there is the main altar in dark marble, with a statue of a dying soldier, the work of the artist Pietro Canonica. On both sides the structure has a portico built in white marble. On the side of the altar there are two tombstones: one is dedicated to General Vincenzo Dapino, while on the other is the text of the congratulatory telegram from General Mark Clark to Dapino himself, for the victorious battle. The portico bears the inscription MORTUI UT PATRIA VIVAT and on the side of the access staircase, arranged in rows with shelves sloping towards the entrance, 784 soldiers who died fighting with the Italian Liberation Corps and with the Folgore Combat Groups, Legnano are buried , Mantua, Friuli and Cremona. Each tomb is marked with a white marble cross with the name carved on the tombstone. On the last shelf is the tomb of General Umberto Utili. Also on the side of the staircase there are two stone bases on which two flagpoles with the flags of the Combat Groups are placed. On the hill, on the vertical of the staircase, there is a bronze statue of the Immaculate Madonna. In the square of the Shrine, with a ray of orientation, the various locations where the various fights took place are indicated. In front of the Memorial, on the other side of Via Casilina, a small museum has been set up where it is possible to view various documents, photographs, relics and weapons of the time, outside it there are tanks and Italian artillery pieces and British employed in the battle.

The Aragonese castle of Vairano was built on the remains of the Norman and Swabian ones between 1491 and 1503 by Innico II d'Avalos. It has four towers of which the largest, located to the south-east, is called "Torre mastra" and has an open atrium entrance. The interior is destroyed, but the subdivision of the floors, the kitchens, the prisons and the old cistern are still visible.

The Monastery of S. Reparata, probably founded in the 9th century, was canonically suppressed after the Council of Trent, due to the supervening prohibition of holding female monasteries outside the town. The nuns were welcomed in the Monastery of S. Caterina. The Monastery of S. Reparata is located along the road to Roccamonfina, in the Pino district and its foundation is not prior to 804 as it is not mentioned in the privilege of Charlemagne, which lists all the Benedictine possessions in Teano. The most probable date is the second half of the century. IX. According to the Bishop Mons. Domenico Giordano, the transfer of S. Reparata to the Cathedral took place in the year 880. It is one of the most important monasteries in Teano because the remains of Santa Reparata, who is the patron saint of Nice, are kept inside the church. his diocese, of the cities of Atri and Casoli; co-patroness of Florence, of Teano, of the diocese of Teramo-Atri and patroness and protector of the municipality of Pesco Sannita.

It would be built on the ruins of ancient Roman baths. Currently it is no longer used for worship and could be more valued for civic uses as an attractant for the entire country.

The sanctuary of Maria Santissima dei Lattani is a Marian sanctuary located in the territory of the municipality of Roccamonfina, in Campania, the place of death of the bishop Giacinto Tamburini. The sanctuary was founded in 1430 by San Bernardino da Siena and San Giacomo della Marca, who had arrived there following the news of the discovery of a statue of the Virgin in the same or the previous year. A first rural chapel was built, then a first church, enlarged shortly after in its present form between 1448 and 1507. In 1446 Pope Eugene IV entrusted the convent, which had risen in the meantime, to the Franciscans. In March 1970 the sanctuary was elevated by Pope Paul VI to the dignity of a minor basilica. The buildings of the sanctuary open onto a large internal courtyard, opening onto the panorama. It is overlooked by the church, the convent and a building built at the time of its foundation, called "Protoconventino" or "hermitage of San Bernardino", recently restored in its original form. The facade of the church, preceded by a large porch with a round arch, preserves the original wooden door of 1507. The interior, with a single nave, divided into spans by pillars that support the cross vault with a lowered pointed arch, preserves 15th and 18th century frescoes and Gothic windows with polychrome stained glass. On the left opens the chapel dedicated to the Virgin of the Lattani, with a frescoed dome, which houses a statue of the Madonna and Child in basalt stone, covered with polychrome painting, perhaps attributable to the 9th century. The convent has a façade with arched portico and inside a rectangular cloister with pointed arches supported by small columns, of various shapes, on two floors. There are 17th century frescoes painted by his father Tommaso di Nola. The refectory opens onto the cloister. The so-called "Protoconventino" building overlooks the internal courtyard with a two-storey loggia, open to the valley with windows, the lower one decorated with a rose window. In the courtyard there is also a stone fountain and on the side facing the mountain a fifteenth-century fountain decorated in 1961 by a representation on colored ceramic.