Overview
Not far from the course of the River Garigliano, which marks the boundary between Campania and Lazio, Sessa Aurunca is an ancient town that became increasingly important thanks to its strategic position along the trade route to Rome. The name refers to the Aurunci people, who were the original settlers of these lands before the Roman invasion. To learn more about their history, and other stories about Sessa Aurunca, it's worth paying a visit to the Archaeological Museum in the castle complex. The halls of the museum contain a notable statue of Matidia Minor, the sister-in-law of the emperor Hadrian.
One monument that must be seen when in the province of Caserta is the Roman theatre in Sessa Aurunca, which you can visit before entering the town's exquisite Romanesque cathedral. For natural landscape, the fragrant pine forests of the Tyrrhenean Sea are just fifteen kilometres away, but the air you breathe in Sessa Aurunca is filled with the scent of the dense woodland covering the Roccamonfina volcano, located to the north of the town.
