Where to Stay in Benevento, Campania

What is Benevento known for?

The Roman Theatre, the Roman Amphitheatre of Benevento, the Temple of Isis and the Arco del Sacramento survive from the ancient city, and the Museum of Sannio keeps what excavation has taken out of them. Santa Sofia Church is the other pole. Benevento Cathedral, the Basilica church of San Bartolomeo and the Museo diocesano carry the ecclesiastical side, while Janua - museo delle streghe takes an entirely different subject.

What are the main landmarks in Benevento?

Ancient stone leads the list. The Roman Theatre, the Roman Amphitheatre of Benevento, the Temple of Isis, the Arco del Sacramento and the Terme di San Cristiano make up the classical inheritance, and the Museum of Sannio interprets it. Churches answer them.

Santa Sofia Church, Benevento Cathedral, the Basilica church of San Bartolomeo, San Filippo, Santa Maria del Carmine, Santi Quaranta and San Vittorino carry the religious record, while ARCOS, Museo d'arte contemporanea Sannio and PalaTedeschi belong to the modern city.

What is the history of Benevento?

The Roman city came first. A theatre, an amphitheatre and a temple to an Egyptian goddess all stood here, and the Roman Theatre, the Roman Amphitheatre of Benevento and the Temple of Isis remain as the proof, with the Arco del Sacramento and the Terme di San Cristiano completing the ancient fabric. Excavation filled a museum.

The Museum of Sannio took the finds and gave the surrounding country, Sannio, its own institution. Christian Benevento built over that. Santa Sofia Church survives from the early centuries of it, Benevento Cathedral made the city an archiepiscopal seat, and the Basilica church of San Bartolomeo, San Filippo, Santa Maria del Carmine, Santi Quaranta and San Vittorino trace how the parishes spread across the hill above the Calore Irpino.

The Museo diocesano keeps that record. Administration is the modern layer, since the city is the capital of its province and the seat of a Catholic archbishop, two roles that have shaped what gets built and kept. ARCOS, Museo d'arte contemporanea Sannio, the Geobiolab, Janua - museo delle streghe and PalaTedeschi all belong to that recent stretch.

Where is Benevento?

The hill stands 130 metres above sea level, with the Calore Irpino and the Sabato joining below it, and Benevento occupies the ground between the two watercourses, inland from the coasts of Campania. Water sets the limits. The municipal territory runs well past the built-up streets, so the Roman Amphitheatre of Benevento, the Terme di San Cristiano and San Vittorino sit at some remove from the cathedral hill.

What is the climate of Benevento?

The two rivers cool the mornings. Benevento sits inland on its hill in the temperate band of the northern hemisphere, so heat gathers over the valley of the Calore Irpino through the long summer while the cold half arrives damp rather than harsh. Autumn brings the rain.

The Sabato runs fuller for it.

How do you get to Benevento?

Routes follow the valleys in. Arrivals come along the Calore Irpino and the Sabato and climb the last stretch to a centre where the Roman Theatre, Benevento Cathedral and Santa Sofia Church stand within minutes of each other. The hill is the destination.

PalaTedeschi and the Museum of Sannio mark the two ends of the walk across it.