Benevento boasts an impressive artistic and historical heritage, since 2011 the church of St. Sophia, built in 760 by the Lombard Duke Arechi II, it became part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in serial Lombards in Italy: the places of power. You can visit: St. Sophia Church with adjoining monumental complex.

Piazza Matteotti with the church of St. Sophia. The church of Hagia Sophia is a building that dates back to the Lombard approximately 760, of small proportions can circumscribe with a circle with a diameter of 23.5 m. It is one of the most important churches in Langobardia Minor come to this day, notable mostly for its original star-shaped and the unusual arrangement of the pillars and columns. Restored in Baroque style after the earthquake of 1688, it was then restored to its original form in 1951.

The church is connected to a monastery that was one of the most important cultural centres of Lombard, which is interesting cloister (rebuilt in the twelfth century); Today it houses the Museum of Sannio. The church tower, located at the entrance of the square in front of it, dates back to the eighteenth century.
Since 2011 the church and monastery are part of the UNESCO site called Lombards in Italy: the places of power.

The second stop is Sant'Agata dei Goti. The name Sant'Agata de 'Goti, as we know it today, is formed in two different historical periods. It was during the sixth century in fact that the city was named after the saint of Catania. It must instead the presence in town of French family of de Goth (the same Pope Clement V), to which Robert of Anjou granted the fief of Sant'Agata in 1300, the 'de' Goti ".

Indeed, it is only during the fourteenth century that the name, as we know it today, appeared for the first time in a document official.

Another argument, however, attributes the "de 'Goti" the passage of the Goths in these areas during the sixth century. because the area offers a wealth of local produce, this city also gives you the opportunity to be a tasting tour; In fact, you can try the Winter Apple, specialty cultivated today throughout Campania, and enjoy a white wine like Falanghina, or a red wine like Aglianico.