Aversa

Aversa
Country	Italy
region	Campania
province	Caserta (CE)
Coordinates	40 ° 58 ′ N , 14 ° 12 ′ E Coordinates: 40 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E
height	39 m slm
surface	8.7 km²
Residents	51,925 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	5,968 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	81031
prefix	081
ISTAT number	061005
Popular name	Aversani
Patron saint	San Paolo (January 25th)
Website	Aversa

Aversa is an Italian city with 51,925 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Caserta . It lies in the largely agricultural plain known as agro aversano and was the first Norman county on the Mediterranean Sea ( 1030 ).

Attractions

Chiesa di Santa Maria a Piazza

The Romanesque Duomo (cathedral), consecrated to Saint Paul of Tarsus , with ambulatory and octagonal dome
The baroque church of San Francesco delle Monache
The Ospedale Psichiatrico Santa Maria Maddalena , founded by Joachim Murat in 1813
The Real Casa dell'Annunziata
The Benedictine Abbey of San Lorenzo , founded in the 10th century, with a Renaissance cloister
The church of Santa Maria a Piazza , founded in the 10th century, has frescoes by the school of Giotto di Bondone .
Other churches in the city house paintings by Guido da Siena , Polidoro da Caravaggio , Marco Pino da Siena, Pietro da Cortona , Pietro Negroni , Giuseppe Ribera , Cornelius Smeet , Abram Vink , Teodoro d'Errico , Francesco de Mura , Massimo Stanzione, and Paolo de Majo .