Ponte is the name of a town and ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
'' in the
Province of Benevento
The Province of Benevento ( it, Provincia di Benevento) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Benevento.
Geography
The province has an area of 2,071 km2, and, , a total population of 279,308. There are 78 ...
,
Campania Region,
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
. It is a member of the
Titerno "Local Action Group" (''GAL'') and its name means ''
bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...
'' in
Italian
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.
Geography
The municipality is located some km in north-west of
Benevento and borders with
Casalduni
Casalduni is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 60 km northeast of Naples and about 15 km northwest of Benevento, on the slopes of Monte Cicco on the right of the Tamma ...
,
Fragneto Monforte,
Paupisi
Paupisi (Campanian: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region of Campania, about northeast of Naples and about northwest of Benevento. It covers approximately . As of 1 January 2020, its population was ...
,
San Lorenzo Maggiore
San Lorenzo Maggiore is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Benevento, in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is a member of the Titerno Local Action Group.
Geography
San Lorenzo Maggiore covers 16.17 square kilometers of hilly land ...
,
San Lupo
San Lupo is the name of a hill town and ''comune'' in the province of Benevento, in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is a member of the Titerno "Local Action Group".
The town is located 60 km from the A1 highway, exit at Caserta, ...
and
Torrecuso
Torrecuso is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 50 km northeast of Naples and about 10 km northwest of Benevento.
Torrecuso borders the following municipalities: Benev ...
. It contains 7
frazioni
A ''frazione'' (plural: ) is a type of subdivision of a ''comune'' (municipality) in Italy, often a small village or hamlet outside the main town. Most ''frazioni'' were created during the Fascist era (1922–1943) as a way to consolidate territ ...
: Canale, Colli, Ferrarisi, Monte, Piana, Puglia and Staglio.
History
Ponte has its origins in an ancient Roman stone bridge which was the passage of the
Via Latina
The Via Latina (Latin for "Latin Road") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers.
Route
It led from the Porta Latina in the Aurelian walls of Rome to the pass of Mount Algidus; it was important in the ear ...
over the Alenta river.
The first settlements can be traced back to
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediter ...
times, in fact it was here that the roadway Via Latina, connecting Benevento with Rome through the Telesia Valley, passed. The bridge that passed over the Alenta river is today known as the St. Anastasia Bridge. The town was very important even during the Lombard domination. The old town is of medieval origin, although little is left of the castle of Norman origin built in the eleventh century CE. There was also a large Benedictine abbey built in the eighth century AD, the abbey of St. Benedict. The territory was ruled by Baldwin the Great, who took care of the development, renewing and expanding the ancient church of
St. Denis.
In later times, Ponte belonged to the major families of the Kingdom, such as the Sanframondos, the Carafas, and the Caracciolos, for example.
Ponte was a stronghold of the House of Sanframondo, but during this period, due to a plague and a violent earthquake, which devastated a good part of the area, Ponte became uninhabited.
In 1585 it was bought by
Domenico Sarriano, whose family retained the title of Duke of Ponte until the abolition of the feudal regime.
After being a fraction of
Casalduni
Casalduni is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 60 km northeast of Naples and about 15 km northwest of Benevento, on the slopes of Monte Cicco on the right of the Tamma ...
and
Paupisi
Paupisi (Campanian: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region of Campania, about northeast of Naples and about northwest of Benevento. It covers approximately . As of 1 January 2020, its population was ...
, since 22 June 1913 it is an autonomous municipality.
Demographics
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References
External links
Ponte official websitePonte on "GAL Titerno" website
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Cities and towns in Campania