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Sessa Aurunca
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Sessa Aurunca is a town of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta. It is located on the south west slope of the destroyed volcano of Rocca Monfina, 27 miles by rail west north west of Caserta and 30 kilometers east of Formia. In 2004, the population of the city was 22,860 and an area of 163 square kilometers. It is situated on the site of the ancient Suessa Aurunca, on a small affluent of the Liri.
The city contains many ancient remains, notably the ruins of an antique bridge in brickwork of twenty-one arches, of substructures in opus reticulatum under the church of S. Benedetto, of a building in opus quadratum, supposed to have been a public portico, under the monastery of S. Giovanni, and of an amphitheatre.
The Romanesque church is a cathedral with a vaulted portico and a nave and two aisles begun in 1103. The portal has curious sculptures with scenes from the life of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The principal streets are memorial stones with inscriptions in honour of Charles V, surmounted by an old crucifix with a mosaic cross. Sessa Aurunca is an attractive city with natural beauty and historical places, while traveling in Italy.
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