Alife Cathedral

The Cathedral of Caiazzo has been renovated several times over the centuries and the first transformations date back to the 10th century when Caiazzo became a diocese under Norman rule. At that time the church was probably built on a pagan temple, perhaps dedicated to Jupiter or Mars. Cathedral of the diocese of Caiazzo until 1986, it is currently co-cathedral of the diocese of Alife-Caiazzo.

The cathedral of Capua is said to have been founded by Bishop Landulfo in 856. It was rebuilt in the 10th century, then by Archbishop Erveo (1072-1086) towards the end of the 11th century; he added the entrance portico, which was later enlarged in the 15th century, and considerably renovated the adjacent bishop's palace. In the 18th century the whole complex was radically renovated; again, between 1854 and 1857, under the episcopate of Giuseppe Cosenza, the architect Federico Travaglini renovated the church, which was almost completely razed to the ground during the 1943 bombings: it was rebuilt between 1949 and 1957.

The cathedral of Venafro was rebuilt in the second half of the 11th century by Bishop Pietro of Ravenna. The building also experienced a tumultuous life: it was stripped of all its possessions by the troops of Frederick II (1220-1250), was damaged by earthquakes in 1349 and 1456, was burnt down on the orders of Emperor Ludwig and had to accommodate the troops of Charles VIII in 1495. Between the end of the 17th century and throughout the 18th century, the church was embellished in the Baroque style. However, its present appearance is the result of restoration work carried out in the 1960s and 1970s, which stripped the co-cathedral of its old Baroque forms and returned it to its previous medieval-Gothic appearance.