The name comes from a Roman: Marcus Aulus Albinus, procurator of the first cohort of the Breuci and patron of Alifae and Cubulteria at Rome, who in the second century had his villa where the church of San Sebastiano now stands. Villa Albiniani became Alvignano. The city the town descends from, though, is Cubulteria, destroyed by Saracen raids between the eighth and ninth centuries: the survivors moved a couple of kilometres west, to the slopes of the Colli Caprensi. On the site of the dead city stands the basilica of Santa Maria di Cubulteria, a Lombard monument of the eighth or ninth century, and the ancient remains can still be seen inside the church.
Alvignano is the sum of many hamlets that took their names from families and churches: San Mauro, San Nicola, Petrilli, Angiolilli, Faraoni, Marcianofreddo. They joined up between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by lining themselves along the state road 158, but some stayed on their own, like Marcianofreddo, still isolated high on the hills. From 1927 to 1945 the municipality was not in Caserta province but in that of Benevento, because fascism had abolished the province of Caserta; and during the war the German command settled here, at Villa Ortensia.
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📅 Every year, on the second Sunday of July; 26 July brings the feast of Saint Anne
Alvignano celebrates Saint Ferdinand of Aragon on the second Sunday of July. On 26 July, Saint Anne is solemnly celebrated, while on Shrove Tuesday the allegorical floats of the Alvignano Carnival parade through the streets.
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