Motorhome campsite in Montecassino Abbazia

Casinum / 0.1 km

Casinum was an ancient town of Italy, probably of Volscian origin. Varro states that the name was Sabine, and meant forum vetus, and also that the town itself was Samnite, but he is probably wrong. When it came under Roman supremacy is not known, but it probably received the citizenship in 188 BC (...) (mehr)

Carloman (mayor of the palace) / 0.1 km

Carloman (between 706 and 716There is some discrepancy between the sources on his year of birth. It is given variously as 706, 708, 714, or 716. – 17 AugustThere is some discrepancy between the sources on his date of death. It is the 17 of either August or July (...) (mehr)

Battle of Monte Cassino / 0.1 km

The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino) was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The intention was a breakthrough to Rome (...) (mehr)

Monte Cassino / 0.2 km

Monte Cassino (sometimes written Montecassino) is a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, to the west of the town of Cassino and altitude. Site of the Roman town of Casinum, it is best known for its abbey, the first house of the Benedictine Order, having been established by (...) (mehr)

Monte Cassino Polish war cemetery / 0.8 km

The Polish war cemetery at Monte Cassino holds the graves of over a thousand Poles who died storming the bombed-out Benedictine abbey atop the mountain in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte Cassino. The cemetery is maintained by the Council for the Protection of Memorial Sites of Struggle and (...) (mehr)