Benevento

Benevento ( Beneventum Latin, German Benevento ) is the capital of the Italian province of Benevento in the Campania region with 60 797 inhabitants ( as at 31 December 2012). The city has 969 seat of the Archdiocese of Benevento.

• 6.1 Coat of Arms
• 6.2 Town twinning

Geography

Benevento is located 239 km southeast of Rome, 66 km north-east of Naples and 94 kilometers southwest of Foggia. The city is located in the historic hills Samnium ( Sannio Italian ) at the foot of the Campanian Apennines. The old town is situated on the Colle della Guardia, a hill at the confluence of the rivers Sabato and Calore. The core city is (neighborhoods) divided into six Rioni: Centro Storico, ferrovia, Libertà, Mellusi - Atlantici, Pace Vecchia and Rufina. There are also a number of rural settlements in the extensive municipality. The municipality covers an altitude 83-499 m slm

The city is located in the seismic zone 1 ( high risk ).

The neighboring municipalities are Apollosa, Castelpoto, Foglianise, Fragneto Monforte, Paduli Pesco Sannita, Pietrelcina, Ponte San Leucio del Sannio, San Nicola Manfredi, Sant'Angelo a Cupolo and Torrecuso.

Traffic

Benevento Located on the Strada Statale SS 7 Appia, which leads from Rome to Brindisi on the Adriatic coast. Immediately after the capture by the Romans extended the Appian Way from Capua to Benevento, and finally BC continued to build 190 to Brundisium. It led to today's Ponte Leproso over the Sabato and marched through the city in the course of today's Corso Garibaldi. The modern Via Appia leads as bypass with separate lanes south past the old town. 108 to 110 Trajan left the Via Appia Traiana shorter build, whose beginning is indicated by the Arch of Trajan. It is now replaced by the strada stadale SS 90 to / 90 delle Puglie to Foggia. The strada stadale SS 88 dei Due Principati connects the city with Avellino and Salerno. Benevento is connected to the Adriatic via a feeder road, the Raccordo autostradale RA 9, with the A16 Autostrada dei due Mari of Naples.

The main railway station Benevento Centrale is a major hub for train connections in the direction of Rome, Naples, Campobasso, Salerno, Foggia and Bari. He belongs to the 103 stations that. Because of its importance by its own subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato, the CentoStazioni S. p A., to be managed and maintained. Here on 15 February 1953, severe railway accident occurred: The Diretto 816 from Lecce to Naples, pulled by an electric locomotive type E.428, running 106 instead of the allowable 30 km / h into the station. The entire train derailed, with the exception of the last car. 23 people died and 25 more were also seriously injured. The engineer claimed brake failure, but it is not impossible that he was asleep.

About five kilometers north of Benevento is located near the village of Olivola an airfield for general aviation.

Name

The original name of Benevento was from the Oscan and possibly was Malies or Malocis and developed into Maloenton on. The prefix may be time - had it the meaning " stone ". Latinized it was Maleventum, which in Latin means " bad event " has. After the defeat of Pyrrhus, the city was therefore 268 BC in Beneventum ("good event " ) renamed in the founding of the colony.

History

Benevento was a altsamnitische city in the territory of Hirpiner. It was supposedly founded by Diomedes. Around 300 BC it was conquered by the Romans. 275 BC took place the third battle between King Pyrrhus of Epirus and the Romans under consul M. Curius Dentatus of Benevento. The battle ended with a decisive for the Roman expansion into southern Italy victory. Due to the favorable location of the city was 268 converted to a Roman military colony. The Ostrogoth king Totila destroyed 545 the walls of Benevento.

Following the spread of the Lombards of Benevento seat of Lombard dukes was (see Duchy of Benevento ), but fell repeatedly, depending on the franc and the German emperors. In the context of the Arab conquest of southern Italy 840 Benevento was occupied for several years by the Muslims and the Duchy into two, 850 in three special territories ( Benevento, Salerno and Capua ) divided, and in 1047 it fell into the hands of Norman princes, with the exception of city ​​, the Emperor Henry III. 1053 Leo IX. to offset some of assigned Lehnsrechte left to Bamberg.

In the 11th and 12th centuries four councils were held in Benevento. On February 26, 1266 Hohenstaufen Manfred von Karl was beaten by Anjou at the gates of Benevento on the so-called Rosenfeld, whereupon the latter Puglia, Sicily and Tusciens seized ( Battle of Benevento ). 1418 came Benevento to Naples, but Ferdinand II there was to Pope Alexander VI. back who gave it to his eldest son, Juan Borgia, as a duchy. But Juan was soon murdered.

As 1668 Benevento had been almost completely destroyed by an earthquake, the then Archbishop Orsini ( later Pope Benedict XIII. ) To build up a large part of the city from his private fortune again. The hardness of Pope Clement XIII. against the Infante Philip of Parma prompted the Neapolitans in 1761 to the occupation of Benevento, which was in 1774 but returned to Clement XIV. The French conquered Benevento in 1798 and sold it to Naples. The Cardinal Ruffo dispersed in 1799 in a battle near Benevento, the Republican troops.

In 1806 gave Napoleon I of Benevento as the Principality of his minister Talleyrand, who took the title of Prince of Benevento. In 1815 it was returned after the defeat of the king set up by Napoleon and then Joachim Murat of Naples returned to the Pope. The King of Naples reserved the right to only some sovereign rights, such as the regalia of the tobacco and salt and sale of postal and customs service. Since the annexation of Naples, Benevento in 1860 belonged to the newly formed Kingdom of Italy.

Attractions

Benevento has one of the most beautiful monuments of southern Italy, the famous, 114 AD Trajan built, under the name "Golden Gate" ( porta aurea ) was a city gate of Benevento.

The church complex of Santa Sofia heard in June 2011 to a group of building ensembles ( 568-774 AD) was included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites under the title The Longobards in Italy, Places of Power.

Demographics

Source: ISTAT

Policy

Fausto Pepe ( PD) was chosen for the second time as mayor in May 2011. His center-left alliance also with 19 of 32 seats, the majority in the City Council. He won the 2006 election against his predecessor Sandro Nicola D' Alessandro ( center-right alliance ) (2001 - 2006).

Coat of arms

Red and silver quartered shield with a golden head. Therein, a black boar with red binding. The boar is a symbol of the legendary founder of the city Diomedes, because it has its hometown Kalydon exempt from the ravages of a boar.

Twinning

• Palestine National Authority Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories, 1950
• Italy Naples, Italy, since 1966
• Italy Torre Annunziata, Italy, since 1966
• Italy Pozzuoli, Italy, since 1970
• Croatia Pula, Croatia, since 1977
• Malta Gozo, Malta, since 1987
• Croatia Split, Croatia, since 1997
• Spain Palma de Mallorca, Spain, since 2001
• Switzerland Bern, Switzerland, since 2002
• Italy Campobasso, Italy, since 2002
• Albania Vlora, Albania, since 2007

Sons and daughters of the town

• Lucius Orbilius Pupillus ( 113-13 BC), grammarian and teacher
• Dionisio Neagrus Laurerio (1497-1542), Cardinal
• Niccolò Franco (1505-1569), Italian poet
• Carlo Zotti ( b. 1982 ), football player