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Encyclopedia Britannica



MADDALONI

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 280 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MADDALONI , a town of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, about 32 m. S.E. of Caserta, with stations on the railways from Caserta to
Benevento
  and from Caserta to
Avellino
 , 200 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901), 19,778 (town); 21,270 (commune). It is prettily situated at the base of one of the Tifata hills, the towers of its medieval castle and the
church
  of San Michele crowning the heights above. The fine old palace of the Caraffa family, once dukes of Maddaloni, the old college now named after Giordano Bruno, and the institute for the sons of soldiers are the
chief
  points of
interest
 . About 21' M.
east
  of Valle di Maddaloni, the Ponta
delta
  Valle, an aqueduct built by the orders of Charles III. of Naples and his son to convey the water of the Tiburno to Caserta (19 m.), is carried across the valley between Monte Longano and Monte Gargano by a threefold
series
  of noble
arches
  rising to. a height of 210 ft. The
work
  was
designed by Lodovico Vanvitelli, and constructed between 1753 and 1759.


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