Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Benevento, Italy
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5.2 km
141 m
Explore Benevento in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Individual Sights in BeneventoSight 1: Chiesa di San Domenico
The church of San Domenico is a Baroque church in Benevento, Italy. it is located in Piazza Guerrazzi. A convent is attached to it, now the seat of the Rectorate of the University of Sannio. Its garden is home to Mimmo Paladino's Hortus Conclusus.
Sight 2: Chiesa di Santa Sofia
Santa Sofia is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Benevento, in the region of Campania, in southern Italy; founded in the late-8th century, it retains many elements of its original Lombard architecture.
Sight 3: Chiesa di Sant'Ilario a Port'Aurea
The former church of Sant'Ilario in Port'Aurea, built by the Lombards, 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.
Sight 4: Arch of Trajan
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.
Sight 5: Basilica di San Bartolomeo
San Bartolomeo Apostolo is a Roman Catholic basilica church located in piazza Federico Torre, along corso Garibaldi, in Benevento, region of Campania, Italy.
Sight 6: Chiesa del Carmine
The church of Santa Maria del Carmine, commonly called Sant'Anna, is located in the city of Benevento on Corso Garibaldi.
Sight 7: Obelisco del tempio di Iside
The Egyptian obelisks of Benevento are two monuments built under the Roman emperor Domitian to be erected, between 88 and 89 AD, on either side 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 survived to the present day.
Sight 8: Cripta di San Marco dei Sabariani
The church of San Marco dei Sabariani was a medieval church of Benevento, placed under the juspatronate of the Sabariani family and dedicated to St Mark of Eca, whose relics perhaps kept. The building occupied part of the current Piazza Salvatore Sabariani, and was destroyed by the earthquake of Sannio in 1688. The crypt remains, containing important frescoes by the Benevantan school, of the Lombard age or immediately subsequent; found in 2007, currently being abandoned and at serious risk of deterioration.
Sight 9: Chiesa di San Francesco
The church and convent of St. Francis of 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.
Sight 10: Fontana delle Catene
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.
Sight 11: Palazzo Arcivescovile
The Archbishop's Palace of Benevento, rebuilt after the Second World War, is located in Piazza Orsini.
Sight 12: Arco del Sacramento
The Arch of the Sacrament, built in Roman, is located in Benevento. Sormonta Via Carlo Torre, at the corner of the Archbishop's Palace.
Sight 13: Cattedrale di Sancta Maria de Episcopio
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.
Sight 14: Terme romane - resti della chiesa di San Pietro delle Monache
The monastery of St. Peter of the Nuns was a Benedictine female foundation of Benevento. Certified with confidence from the 11th century, it was definitively suppressed in 1865. Its structures, reused by the Tobacco Agency, were destroyed by the bombing of 1943. There are few ruins left, which reveal more than anything else the pre-existences of the Roman age on which the monastery had been erected.
Sight 15: Chiesa di San Donato
The church of San Donato is located in the city of Benevento, in the Fravola district, once populated by various parishes, monasteries and churches.
Sight 16: Chiesa di San Filippo Neri
The Baroque church of San Filippo Neri is located in the city of Benevento, between the Triggio and Fravola districts.
Sight 17: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Verità
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 theatre of Benevento. It was called, and some still call it today, a new parish.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Verità (Benevento) (IT)
Sight 18: Anfiteatro romano di Benevento
The Roman amphitheater was a monumental building of ancient Benevento. Historical sources suggest that it existed in the year 63, because Nero witnessed a gladiatorial show in the city. The remains of the building were found in 1985 between via Munazio Planco and the Leproso bridge. Part of the building is buried under the tracks of the Benevento-Cancello railway.
Sight 19: Basilica della Madonna delle Grazie
The Basilica of Maria Santissima delle Grazie is a nineteenth-century monumental church in Benevento, to which is attached a Franciscan convent, which was rebuilt after World War II. The area where the basilica is located measures an altitude of 126 m above sea level.
Wikipedia: Basilica della Madonna delle Grazie (Benevento) (IT)
Sight 20: Chiesa di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli
The church of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli is located in Benevento, in the Ferrovia district, along Viale Principe di Napoli.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli (Benevento) (IT)
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