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Italy - Information on San Lupo in the Province of Benevento

San Lupo is an impressive village placed in an olive and vineyards landscape, dominating the valley. Its economy is based on agriculture and it is renowned for the excellent olive-oil. The local producers of olive-oil received public recognition for it.
Its origins go back to the Longobard Age. The Benedictines founded the first built-up area near the Benedictine SS. Lupo and Zosimo’ Abbey (today church of St. Sofia). The village was one of the abbot’s feuds and it got its name from it. It became Guglielmo di Fontanarosa’s, Elia di Gesualdo’s, the Caracciolo family’s and then Carafa’s feud, who possessed it until the abolition of feudalism.

NOT TO BE MISSED:
1. historical centre where arches and wharves characterize almost every alley. The old houses are made precious by dressed stone doorways, the so-called “perlato di San Lupo”, local master-stone-cutters’ works
2. dean church of St. Giovanni Battista
3. church of the Annunziata
4. eighteenth-century Iacobelli palace and Inn
5.eighteenth-century fountain “Capodacqua”
6. “Sant’Angelo” fountain
7. Ianare’s bridge, an important building on a single arch, owing its name to an old legend: it was the place where witches used to meet, to go then to the “magic walnut tree” (noce magico) in Benevento

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