S. MARIA CV (Giuseppe Luongo) - continues to be rich in the past, the subsoil of Santa Maria, once again providing the opportunity to stress the importance it once had the ancient Capua. Were found, in fact, the remains of a suburban villa of Roman expansion during the work of the structure of the church "S. Paul the Apostle, in the district "Bridge Column," in an area that already has sometimes returned to light numerous archaeological finds. The extraordinary discovery occurred during the wise quotes, required prior to any excavation in the ground for the construction of the foundation of new parish halls, in Cumana. Forthwith the works were stopped and intervened the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of Naples and Caserta, which provided a fence and started digging the whole place. Even today, students of the degree course in "Cultural Heritage" university "SUN" are continuing to take care of the site. They are already now clearly visible and internal walls which identify at least four rooms. Of particular interest also nine pitchers not decorated, but very large, probably containing oil and grains. At first it was thought or Etruscan tombs from the Archaic period, a hypothesis later rejected. Experts say it would, however, the second home of a wealthy local gens, used as a workplace and storage of materials, such as would suggest the presence of the amphorae. Work to resume construction of the local parish when they are ready pads supervision for the identification of points at which will be built the pillars of the building. The site was found, as noted by the parish priest Msgr. Peter Piccirillo, "will be properly preserved and made visible to anyone who wants it." As for work on the expansion of the church "will resume as soon as the Civil Engineers, who finds it difficult to complete all the practices allocated to it, will give the green light to the calculations for the concrete, bearing in mind that the legislation is completely new in the aftermath of the tragic earthquake in L'Aquila. "
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