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Caserta Province
Just north of Naples, this province has a long coastline
on the Tyrrhenian Sea, though without the world-famous
bay its neighbour to the south enjoys.
A geologically active region the thick, volcanic soils
make this area particularly fertile. This region has
served as a major producer of many different crops including
grapes and almonds.
Indeed, the region has been the subject of ideas for
rural reform since well before there was even a Roman
Empire.
The capital city of the province, also named Caserta,
has nearly 80,000 inhabitants and was rebuilt on the
current site around the Lombardian tower that overlooks
town to this day that was raised by Pando – the guy
who knocked the city down in the first place in the
9th century.
The province is known for its long history of Etruscan
settlement, going back to the height of their power
in the 6th and 7th centuries BC.
Since then, the region has been a part of the Kingdom
of Naples, becoming a full-fledged province of its own
when Italy was unified in the mid 19th century.
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