Sant'Agata de' Goti is a ''

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'' (municipality) and former Catholic bishopric 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 ...

in the

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region

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, located about 35 km northeast of

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

and about 25 km west of

Benevento Benevento (, , ; la, Beneventum) is a city and ''comune'' of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill above sea level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino (or Beneventano) and the ...

near the

Monte Taburno Taburno Camposauro is a massif located in the Apennines, to the west of Benevento, in the Campania region of Southern Italy. Its highest peak is the Taburno, at 1,393 m. It is composed of two groups of calcareous mountains separated by a p ...

History

Sant'Agata is not far from the ancient Samnite town of

Saticula Saticula was a Caudini city near the frontier of Campania in southern Italy. In 343 BC, during the First Samnite War, the Roman consul Cornelius attacked it during the campaign against the Samnites in the Battle of Saticula. Its archaeological ...

. The 'Goth' part of the town's name does not derive from the (Ostro)Gothic domination of Italy (5th-6th centuries), but from the noble

Gascony Gascony (; french: Gascogne ; oc, Gasconha ; eu, Gaskoinia) was a province of the southwestern Kingdom of France that succeeded the Duchy of Gascony (602–1453). From the 17th century until the French Revolution (1789–1799), it was part o ...

family De Goth, who held it in the 14th century.

Main sights

* Cathedral (''Duomo''), founded in the 10th century, dedicated to the

Assumption of Mary The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it in 1950 in his apostolic constitution '' Munificentissimus Deus'' as follows: We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by ...

. Due to the repeated reconstruction, little remains of the original edifice. The Romanesque

crypt A crypt (from Latin ''crypta'' "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics. Originally, crypts were typically found below the main apse of a chur ...

shows parts which could belong to several pre-existing buildings, including Roman or earlier ones. * Church of ''Santa Menna'' (10th century). * Castle, used as Ducal Palace. * Palace and church of St. Francis (1282). * Gothic church of the ''Annunziata'' (13th century). It houses 15th-century frescoes, and a diptych of the ''Annunciation'' dating to the same age. * The Council Room in City Hall was decorated in 1899 by

Vincenzo Severino Vincenzo Severino (1859-1926)A.M. ComanducciBiography(in Italian)
in Caserta News, 17 April 2009 (in Itali ...

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