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Benevento, in brief.

Trajan's Arch, witch legends, Strega liqueur.

An inland city of layered history, where Trajan's Arch still stands in near-perfect Roman marble and a Lombard-era past survives in the cloister of Santa Sofia.

Benevento is wrapped in old legends of witches and gives its name to the Strega liqueur.

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