Benevento, Administrative center in Campania, Italy
Benevento is a commune in the province of Benevento, Campania region, Italy. The town spreads over several hills at the meeting point of the Calore and Sabato rivers, with a historic center surrounded by wider modern districts.
The Samnites founded a settlement here in the 4th century BC, later known as Maleventum. Rome took control after a victory over Pyrrhus in 275 BC and renamed it Beneventum, then it continued as a colonial town for a longer period.
The Church of Santa Sofia shows a hexagonal plan with a courtyard full of slender columns taken from earlier Roman buildings. Visitors see here traces of Lombard building craft that differ from the usual Byzantine forms across the region.
The main railway station connects the town to Naples in about an hour and a half and to Rome in roughly three hours, with trains running several times daily. Buses offer links to smaller towns nearby and complement the rail network for travelers without their own vehicle.
The Arch of Trajan from the year 114 AD shows reliefs on both sides depicting military campaigns and civic virtues, and they remain almost fully intact. Many fragments of the original bronze cladding were lost over time, but the marble structure itself stayed largely whole.
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Arch of Trajan
361 m
Santa Sofia Church
348 m
Benevento Cathedral
993 m
Santa Sofia monumental complex
348 m
Roman Theatre
1.1 km
Temple of Isis
231 m
Hortus Conclusus
504 m
Ponte Leproso
1.5 km
Museum of Sannio
388 m
Madonna delle Grazie
1.3 km
Santi Quaranta
1.3 km
Zoo delle Maitine
9 km
Bue Apis
1.1 km
Egyptian obelisks of Benevento
553 m
Walls of Benevento
1.3 km
Arco del Sacramento, Benevento
856 m
Roman Amphitheatre of Benevento
1.3 km
Church of Sant'Ilario a Port'Aurea
156 m
Villa dei Papi
2.4 km
Janua - museo delle streghe
579 m
San Marco dei Sabariani, Benevento
519 m
Bridge Vanvitelli
824 m
Palazzo Paolo V
582 m
San Francesco
606 m
Morticelli
1 km
Casa Natale di Padre Pio
9 km
Terme di San Cristiano
1.2 km
Palazzo del Governo
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