Atina Historic Center

Extreme and perhaps more imposing Samnite bulwark in defense of the access routes to the Sannio, it is remembered first by the Latin poet Virgil who counts it among the five cities of Lazio allied with Turn against Enea, calling it "potens". In the III sec. B.C. it was conquered by the Romans, under whose domination it had the rank of prefecture, then of colony, finally of town hall. It subsequently suffered invasions and looting by the barbarians. Razed to the ground by the terrible earthquake of 1349, it was rebuilt at the behest of the Cantelmo family. Today it is a quiet town, where modernity has not overwhelmed a bright past. Among its architectural "jewels", the ancient polygonal walls of the IV - V century. BC, the Doge's Palace and the eighteenth-century cathedral of S. Maria Assunta.