The arrival of the Saracens in the area in 750 coincides with the slow destruction of the city, which had already begun with the invasion of Gaiseric and led the population to take refuge in the site of Foro Claudio and in the surrounding hills (modern-day Casale, roughly the location of a summer palace built in the mid 10th century).

Further west of the urban center of Carinola, at the foot of a small hill of the Massica massif, the Grancelsa, the Borghi Lorenzi (today Laurenzi) and Carani developed in the late Middle Ages.

With a purely pastoral environment, its economy tied to winemaking, anchored to the cultural and religious traditions of devotion to the sacred temple of the hill dedicated to Maria SS.

In fact, in the vicinity of the inhabited centers there were many marshes and rivers full of weeds, which brought diseases such as typhus and cholera, decimating the population.

It was in fact, as can also be read in the motivation for the award, a "strategically important centre": the town was the seat of the Deutsch Ortskommandantur, part of the Massico-Trigno Line, which in turn supported the better known Gustav.

The anniversary of 28 October is particularly felt: in Borgo Laurenzi (fraction of Casanova) they were killed by mortar bodies fired by the Nazis - stationed on nearby Grancelsa - as many as thirteen civilians.

Central in the connection between the cities of Naples and Rome, it borders to the north with Sessa Aurunca, with Teano in the north-east, Francolise in the south-east, Falciano del Massico to the west (Which only split from the commune of Carinola in 1964), and to the south Mondragone, Cancello Arnone and Grazzanise.

The anniversary of 28 October is particularly felt: in Borgo Laurenzi (fraction of Casanova) as many as 13 citizens were killed by mortars fired by the Nazis, stationed on nearby Grancelsa.