The Walled Town of Alife and the Solstices

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna (1)

1 Polito - Politecnico di Torino = Polytechnic of Turin

Here we consider an astronomical orientation of the walled town of Alife, in Campania. This town has maintained its Roman original layout and the walls of that period. We will show, by means of SunCalc software, that the main street of Alife, its Decumanus, is aligned along the sunrise/sunset on solstices.

Mots clés: Italic Towns; Archaeology; Solstices; Saturnalia; Archaeoastronomy; SunCalc

Domaines: Architecture, aménagement de l'espace; Archéologie et Préhistoire

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna. The Walled Town of Alife and the Solstices. Philica, 2017, 962. ⟨hal-01464777⟩