The Bella Dormiente is the correct place whether to spend intense moments of absorbed relax in the green and in the quiet of the hills sannite. Surrounded by the coolness and by the atmosphere rich in suggestion it is possible to penetrate him for paths of mountain, to face long journeys in mountain bike,breath pure air and to be regenerated himself/herself/themselves from the stress. And' possible to penetrate him to the discovery of characteristic places and to be a day in the total green, can devote to the search of funghi,tartufi,asparagi that swarm the zone in the periods of harvest. Naturally the sport doesn't exist and only is for this that we have equipped the structure with so many comforts, we give the possibility to be independent, to be able to eat outside, or to cook as if you were at home. It perished the researchers of the total relax there is the service of complete ristorazione that will be furnished you from a restaurant of the place. The structure is situated to 480 mt. on the level of the sea, to half road from the places native of St. Pious from Pietrelcina and the famous Sanctuary of the Madonna of Montevergine; to few footsteps from the Sanctuary of the Medical Saints SS. Cosma and Damiano. During the summer periods and in some winter ones you can taste and to purchase flat typical local in the so many organized feasts. In other words there are all the papers to be able to spend a true vacation to the Bella Dormiente, the ideal place.


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Benevento, beautiful and laughing town, bathed by the rivers Saturday and Heat, it transudes finds sign of the millennia of history lived on the place by the Sannitis, which Maleventum had denominated her because of his/her morphological conformation that made to channel the winds in particular way. When you/he/she was conquered by the Romans, with the defeat of Pirro, the city took the name of Beneventum from which it derives the actual name. Roman town hall and point of standstill you/he/she was elected along the important street to console Appia that gave importance and wealth to the whole territory. Later, Traiano, had the Street to build new Appia, and it erected the arc of Triumph to celebrate his/her important civil works and urbanisms.
With the diffusion of the Christianity, in the III sec., Benevento becomes Episcopal center and his/her bishop it was S. Gennaro. With the conquest of part of the Italian territory from the Longobardis, Benevento became center of their dukedom and from that moment it acquired a notable political and economic importance that lasted for over two centuries when had to encounter himself/herself/themselves with the Norman ones, that brought her/it under the control of the Church up to 1860.



L'Arco di Traiano

The arc of Traiano, imposing monument erected in 114, denominated also Golden Door, it testifies today still the power and the conquests in Rome. Very beautiful to see, rich of details it reaches the artistic effect that also has thanks to the great artistic dowries of the sculptors.






La Rocca dei Rettori
In the archaeological zone there are various ruins: the Hole, the Thermal baths, the Temple of Iside erected by Domiziano, few lines of boundaries and the Bridge Leporoso (what it owes the name to a medieval lebbrosano in the proximities). Interesting the rests of the Theater of Adriano, with traces of the whole structure, from the cavea in the inside ambulatory.



Less showy the traces of the Longobardis despite the presence for about two centuries, of which remain however the Castle of Manfredi, erect in reality from Arechi II, surrounded by boundaries that they go down toward the plain one and some religious buildings as the church of S. Sofia, risalente to 762, completed by Arechi, and by maestranze of Byzantine school). And' to stellar plant, with three circular apses, with capitals and columns coming from Roman buildings.



Il Duomo
As many beautiful it is the Cloister, referred in the sec. XI on structures that introduce elements arabeggianti.
The Cathedral, plant paleocristano, referred after every earthquake, it suffered the most greater damage during the last war, when they were standing only the façade and the bell tower (1279), that preserves in the structure Roman marbles and a series of altorilievi, among which the Wild boar, become the coat of arms of the city.
Other churches are also been reconstructed more times as the church of S. Francesco and its Cloister, the Baroque church of S. Domenico and the church of the Madonna of the Graces, that it guards a wooden statue of the Madonna (sec. XV). Interesting the Museum of the Sannio, entertained in S. Sofia, with the sections of archaeology, numismatic, modern art, the pinacoteca and the bathroom of the sketches and the presses.


The Sanctuary of the Holy Madonna of Montevergine
Ospedaletto Di Alpinolo (AV)

It's situated in the thick mountainous of the Partenio (m. 1270 on the liv. sea) to the western limit of the valley irpina, almost to watch of the city of Avellino, chief town of the province. Despite the raised position the access in the Sanctuary is guaranteed from an ample road roadway and from a modern funicular.
In the first decades of the scc. XII, climbed on this mountain a young pilgrim, William, of Vercelli. You proposed of pellegrinare in Palestine. But the Lord pointed out him the Irpinia as field of his/her apostolato. It erected on the mountain a Church in honor of the Mother of God and it gave life to a new religious family.
After having almost all sowed of his/her Houses southern Italy, closed his/her life in the Monastery of S. Salvatore of the Goleto, in territory of S. Angelo of the Lombardis (Avellino), in the year 1142. Its deadly rests returned to Montevergine to the first of September of 1807 and they rest in the Crypt of the new Church devoted to its nam


THE SANCTUARY OF THE SSS. COSMA AND DAMIANO
Arpaise (BN)


L' actual positioning of the Sanctuary of the SSs. Cosma and Damiano in Terranova Fossaceca, laughing fraction of the commune of Arpaise (BN), it goes up again to 1934 when the old church, devoted Maria to Saint, it was dejected because of the ancientness. Externally the Sanctuary introduces him in style gotico,con two impending steeples the Romanesque rose window and a bell tower set on the right side of the apse. Á. the inside the church introduces him divided in three aisles.
The first news that is had on the presence of the cult on the spot of the Saints Martyrs goes up again to 1672, when they came from Rome some relics of theirs inside the statues in marble on purpose created to Serino. The cult of the SSs. Cosma and Damiano, that, we remember, you/they were martyred by the emperor Diocleziano, it also finds varied testimonies in the rest of Italy.
And' present in the right aisle of the church a marmoreal registration recante the dispositions of the Cardinal Orsini (then become a Pope) to get the indulgence on the occasion of the recurrent liturgical recurrence the day 27 of Settembre.Nel raced of the centuries the veneration for the Saints Martyrs Cosma and Damiano firmly took root him near the population of the whole district, also in consideration of the numerous ones thanks gotten by the devotees. Returning to our days, the veneration for the SS.Cosmas and Damiano is testified by the crowd of believers that assembles him on the occasion of the celebrations in honor of our patrons.
Near the place where the dejected church was situated, it is found today still the chapel of the Brotherhood of the SS. Rosary erected in 1898, whose origins can be made to go up again to the period of the Council of Trento concluded him in the year 1563; to his/her inside a wooden statue of the 1700 raffigurante S.Maria of the Pigno is guarded.
Of notable historical value is, finally, the voluminous parish file that picks up all the demografic information of the local population beginning from 1670 around actually to our days.




St. Pious from Pietrelcina (BN)

Pious father, to the century Francis Forgione, was born May 25 th 1887 from Grazio Maria and Giuseppa De Messenger, to Pietrelcina, a small center to 12 kilometers from Benevento. Among the numerous prodigies of Pious father there is that of the trasverberazione manifested him in the days of 5 and August 6 th 1918. Trasverberazione is the wound provoked on the cost of Jesus during the crucifixion. That of the wound to the costs one had been the beginning of the apparition of the signs of the crucifixion signs destined by the Lord to the humble cappuccino. The appearance of the stigmates on the hands and on the feet of Pious father happened the 20 September of 1918. Brief Biografia:a sixteen years of age it enters the convent cappuccino of Morcone, two weeks later, it dressed the saio and takings the name of Pious monk from Pietrelcina. The promise of obedience, poverty and chastity it happened the same day and month of 1904, while the profession of the perpetual votes is of January 27 th 1907. Pious father received the smaller orders in December of 1908 and, a few days later, in the same month, the suddiaconato. What had been his/her great dream became reality the 10 August of 1910 when priest was ordered in the cathedral of Benevento. A few months after the entry of Italy in the first world war, Pious father was called to the weapons and the 6 December of 1915 assigned to the 10 ^ Company of Health in Naples. A bronchial illness induced the military authority to reform him/it from the service.