| Volturno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (446 words) |
 | It rises in the Abruzzese central Apennines of Samnium near Alfedena and flows southeast as far as its junction with the Calore River near Caiazzo and runs S. as far as Venafro, and then turns southwest, past Capua, to enter the Tyrrhenian Sea in Castel Volturno, northwest of Naples. |
| The river has always had considerable military importance, and the colony of Volturnum (no doubt preceded by an older, possibly even Etruscan, port of Capua) was founded in 194 B.C. at its mouth on the S. bank by the Romans; it is now about one mile inland. |
| The Via Domitiana from Sinuessa to Puteoli crossed the river at this point, and some remains of the bridge are visible. |
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