Almost all our guests arrive planning to use Capua as a base for Naples and Caserta. Then they spend a morning in the old town and change plans. This is the route we suggest, all on foot.
Morning: the Matres Matutae and the Duomo
Start at the Museo Campano, five minutes from us. The Matres Matutae room — over one hundred and fifty stone mothers, each holding her children — silences even people who claim not to like museums. Then the Duomo: the bell tower with reused Roman reliefs, the crypt, the fourteenth-century Madonnas.
Midday: underground
If you booked ahead — and you must — underground Capua is the surprise of the day: tunnels carved in tuff beneath the streets you have just walked, with Roman, medieval and Bourbon layers stacked on each other.
Afternoon: the river
Eight minutes on foot brings you to the Roman bridge over the Volturno, where the Appian Way passed. Go around six: the light on the river at that hour explains on its own why this city was fought over for three thousand years.