From 1 January 1929 Portico di Caserta did not exist: the regime merged it with Macerata Campania into a new municipality, named Casalba after an old hamlet, with the town hall at Macerata and the whole thing moved into the province of Naples. The two villages took their names back on 30 June 1946, inside the newly created province of Caserta.
The name perhaps comes from a Roman porticus, maybe that of a villa at Musicile, beneath which the settlement is said to have grown. The parish church of San Pietro already appears in the tithe list of 1137; the present one was rebuilt in the seventeenth century, widened into a Latin cross between 1864 and 1875, and holds the four Evangelists painted in 1874.
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Next up: Saint Peter the Apostle, patron of the Bottari of Sant'Antonio, Tuesday 29 June
Nearest airport: Napoli Capodichino, 19 km away
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📅 Every year, on 29 June; 22 to 26 January bring the Bottari of Sant'Antonio Abate
Portico di Caserta celebrates Saint Peter the Apostle on 29 June, in the church dedicated to him. From 22 to 26 January the feast of Saint Anthony the Abbot is celebrated, with the Bottari tradition and the «Carri, Ritmi e Pastellessa» event, which every year draws thousands of people from across Campania.
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