Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Benevento, Italy

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.

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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 church of San Marco dei Sabariani was a medieval church in Benevento, located 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 from the Benevento school, from the Lombard age or immediately later; Found in 2007, it is currently in a state of abandonment and at serious risk of deterioration.

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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.

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

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The name Terme di San Cristiano is used informally to denote a Roman building, probably a thermal bath, located in the Triggio district of Benevento, around the church dedicated to the saint. What remains of the structure consists of two distinct parts: one, historically known, are three rooms incorporated into the buildings to the west of Via San Cristiano; the other consists of some ruins in the appurtenances of the Campi house, to the east of this road. The latter were the subject of archaeological excavations in the 2000s, but the results of the study have not been published.

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The Roman amphitheatre was a monumental building in ancient Benevento. Historical sources suggest that it existed in the year 63, because Nero witnessed a gladiatorial spectacle 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.

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The Santi Quaranta are the remains of a long Roman cryptoporticus located in Benevento, between the San Lorenzo district and the rural area of Cellarulo, at a cliff on the left of the basilica of the Madonna delle Grazie. The building consisted of a system of vaulted galleries, of uncertain dating and use; More precisely, there was at least one long corridor to which two transversal, shorter corridors were connected.

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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.

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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 Benedictine foundation for women in Benevento. Attested with certainty from the eleventh century, it was definitively suppressed in 1865. Its facilities, reused by the Tobacco Agency, were then destroyed by bombing in 1943. A few ruins remain, which reveal more than anything else the pre-existing Roman buildings on which the monastery was erected.

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The church of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli is located in Benevento, in the Ferrovia district, along Viale Principe di Napoli.

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