Giugliano in campania – Italy (VIDEO)

Giugliano in Campania (better known simply as Giugliano) is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy. As of 2011, it had some 110,000 inhabitants and it is the most populated Italian city not provincial seat.

In 5th-4th century BCE the territory of Giugliano was settled by the Osci. According to a tradition, the city was founded by a group of colonists from Cuma in 421 BCE, who called it Lilianum (“Land of the lilies”). The city remained a small center until 1207, when Cuma was destroyed by the Neapolitans; some of the citizens from that town, including the clergy and the cathedral capitular, took shelter in Giugliano. The first documents mentioning a fief in Giugliano dates from 1270.

Lords of the city were, in sequence, the Vulcano, Filomarino, Pignatelli, D’Aquino, Pinelli and Colonna.