Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Benevento, Italy

The Roman Theatre is an ancient Roman edifice in Benevento, southern Italy. It was built in the 2nd century by emperor Hadrian near the city's cardo maximus. Abandoned in Lombard times, it is now surrounded by the medieval Rione (district) Triggio. The structures is still used for concerts, representations and other spectacles.

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The church of Santa Maria della Verità is located in the city of Benevento in Piazza Caio Ponzio Telesino, in the Triggio district. It is built on the ruins of the Roman theater of Benevento. It was called, and some still call it today, a new parish.

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The Abbey of Saints Lupolo and Zosimo, later of San Lupo, was a Benedictine monastery in Benevento, founded in the Lombard age and located in the Triggio district. After the suppression of the monastery in 1450 and the fall into disuse, in the late seventeenth century the place was changed to a cemetery: for some time it was popularly called the Morticelli cemetery because it was dedicated to the burial of deceased children. After the bombings of the Second World War, some ruins remain.

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The church of San Filippo Neri, in Baroque style, is located in the city of Benevento, between the Triggio and Fravola districts.

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The church of San Donato is located in the city of Benevento, in the Fravola district, once populated by various parishes, monasteries and churches.

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The monastery of San Pietro delle Monache was a female Benedictine foundation in Benevento. Attested with certainty from the eleventh century, it was definitively suppressed in 1865. Its structures, reused by the Tobacco Agency, were then destroyed by bombing in 1943. Few ruins remain, which reveal more than anything else the pre-existing Roman age on which the monastery had been erected.

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Benevento Cathedral is a church in Benevento, southern Italy. The cathedral is the seat of the Archbishops of Benevento. It dates from the Lombard foundation of the Duchy of Benevento, in the late 8th century, but after its destruction during Allied bombings in the course of World War II, it was largely rebuilt in the 1960s.

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The Arch of the Sacrament, built in Rome, is located in Benevento. It surmounts Via Carlo Torre, at the corner of the Archbishop's Palace.

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The Archbishop's Palace of Benevento, rebuilt after the Second World War, is located in Piazza Orsini.

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The Fountain of the Chains is a monumental Baroque fountain in Benevento, located in Piazza Orsini. This name is popularly attributed to it, because it is surrounded by chains.

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The church and convent of San Francesco d'Assisi are located in Piazza Dogana in the historic center of Benevento. According to tradition, the establishment of a Franciscan community in Benevento followed the arrival in the city of Francis of Assisi himself. The convent complex, although remodeled, is one of the main expressions of Gothic architecture in Benevento.

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The church of Santa Maria del Carmine, commonly called Sant'Anna, is located in the city of Benevento on Corso Garibaldi.

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The Egyptian obelisks of Benevento are two monuments built under the Roman emperor Domitian to be erected, between 88 and 89 AD, on both sides of the entrance to the new temple of Isis of the colony of Beneventum. Their hieroglyphic inscriptions are the most explicit attestation of the existence of such a temple that has come down to the present day.

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The church of San Marco dei Sabariani was a medieval church in Benevento, placed under the patronage of the Sabariani family and dedicated to San Marco di Eca, whose relics it may have kept. The building occupied part of the current Piazza Salvatore Sabariani, and was destroyed by the Sannio earthquake of 1688. The crypt remains, containing important frescoes of the Benevento school, of the Lombard age or immediately after; Found in 2007, it is currently in a state of neglect and at serious risk of deterioration.

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The Arch of Trajan is an ancient Roman triumphal arch in Benevento, southern Italy. It was erected in honour of the Emperor Trajan across the Via Appia, at the point where it enters the city.

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The former church of Sant'Ilario in Port'Aurea, of Lombard construction, is located in the city of Benevento, along Via San Pasquale, which was a stretch of the Via Traiana. The name of the church derives from its proximity to the Arch of Trajan, which in the Middle Ages, inserted in the city walls, took the name of Porta Aurea.

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The Teatro Comunale Vittorio Emmanuele is a theater center in the city of Benevento.

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The church of San Domenico is a Baroque church in Benevento; it is located in Piazza Guerrazzi. A convent is annexed to it, now the seat of the Rectorate of the University of Sannio. Its garden is home to Mimmo Paladino's Hortus Conclusus.

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San Bartolomeo Apostolo is a Catholic basilica located in piazza Federico Torre, along corso Garibaldi, in Benevento, region of Campania, Italy.

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The church of the Annunziata is a Baroque style church in Benevento.

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