Casaluce ( Homelight in English, Domus Lux in Latin) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italy region Campania, located about north of Naples and about southwest of Caserta.
Casaluce borders the following municipalities: Aversa, Frignano, San Tammaro, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Teverola.
History
Most likely Casaluce originated on the ruins of late Roman imperial ruins, a village being mentioned in the
Cronaca Volturnese of 964 AD. In the early 11th century the first
Italo-Normans immigrants had a base here. A castle was built by them in the place, in 1030 by
Robert Guiscard,
or 1060, by
Rainulf Drengot, depending from the sources.
The castle was destroyed by Roger II of Sicily after his victory against Drengot's successor, Richard II of Aversa. Roger later allowed a reconstruction of the structure, which was used as a military and tax-collection outpost under the
Hohenstaufen dynasty, as a fief of the Casaluccia family. Later it was a possession of the del Balzo.
In 1360 the Celestines monks acquired the castle, adding a Gothic church annexed to it which became a centre of veneration of an image of the Virgin.
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