La Basilica della Madonna delle Grazie a Benevento fu iniziata nel 1839, anche se la costruzione era stata promessa in voto due anni prima dal Comune durante un’epidemia di colera. La posa della prima pietra si deve a monsignor Gioacchino Pecci, il futuro papa Leone XIII, allora delegato apostolico di Benevento per...
La Rocca dei Rettori è conosciuta anche come Castello di Benevento o Castello di Manfredi. La Rocca domina per la sua mole Piazza 4 Novembre, nel centro storico di Benevento. L’imponente edificio fu realizzato, per volere di papa Giovanni XXII nel 1321. La sua edificazione prese a modello le grandi costruzioni...
Per questo Ponte romano la via Appia entrava in Benevento. .. Sotto le sue quattro arcate (un tempo cinque) scorre il fiume Sabato, che ricorda antiche leggende di streghe in folli sarabande sulle sue rive… Il Ponte Leproso rappresentava il tratto di accesso in città attraverso la via Appia che conduceva a Brindisi e...
The crunchy ‘Zitella’ Apple of the hills of Avellino and Benevento In the hill and mountain areas of Avellino and Benevento, we still find, in the mixed orchards of familiar kind, very vigorous trees of the ‘Zitella’ (spinster) apple, a cultivar once largely spread, along with other traditional varieties. Its fruit is...
The Palace of Frederick II, also called Casinò del Principe, stays in a place full of history, a hamlet of Calvi ‘Il Cubante’ whose name comes from Leo Cubans (the lying Lion). In this place, it passed the Appian Way that went to Eclano. Moreover, here it would have held the Battle between Tiberius Gracchus and the...
The hamlet of Campolattaro is included in the Comunità Montana del Titerno e dell’Alto Tammaro. The name Campolattaro comes from the toponym ‘Campuguttari’, which means ‘Field of Walthario’, proper name used by the Lombards. Therefore, the Lombard origin attests the antiquity of the hamlet. The transformation of the...
The Hortus Conclusus is an artistic installation by Domenico Paladino, leading figure of the Italian Transavantgarde, made in 1992 in collaboration with the architects Roberto Serino and Pasquale Palmieri and the designer Filippo Cannata. The name Hortus Conclusus comes from the Latin and identifies a close garden, a...
Fragneto L’Abate is a little village in province of Benevento characterized by the presence of oak woods. Exactly from these trees (in Italian called ‘farnia’), it derives the name ‘Farnitum’, become then in Italian ‘farnito’ and later ‘Fragneto’. The expression ‘Abatis’, that is of the abbot, was surely added to...
The Church of Santa Sofia is a building of extraordinary architectural interest. The church is part of the monumental complex of Santa Sofia, which includes the church, the annexed cloister and part of the abbey that today houses the Museum of Samnium. The restoration of the church of Santa Sofia has been made in the...
Benevento has been a Samnite, Roman, Lombard and even pontifical town. In fact, it boasts a considerable historical artistic heritage and important archaeological assets. The roman theater of Benevento represents, therefore, most part of the Samnite archaeological heritage. It was built in the II century by the...
