San Lupo is the name of a hill town and ''

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'' in the

province of Benevento The Province of Benevento ( it, Provincia di Benevento) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Benevento. Geography The province has an area of 2,071 km2, and, , a total population of 279,308. There are 78 ...

, in the

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region of southern

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. It is a member of the Titerno "Local Action Group". The town is located 60 km from the A1 highway, exit at

Caserta Caserta () is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial, and industrial '' comune'' and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Ca ...

, or is reachable by the Benevento-Caianello National Road. The nearest railway station is Naples-Foggia line. There are daily flights to Benevento and

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. The town is also accessible by bus, on the line St. Wolf-Naples-Benevento-Campobasso, with links to Benevento (3 trips daily in summer and 3 runs in the winter), Naples (3 trips daily during the summer and 3 runs in the winter) and Campobasso (3 trips daily in summer and 3 runs in the winter).

History

The first settlement dates back to the period between the 10th and 11th century AD by

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monks who were attracted to these lands and called them "San Lupo and Zosimus." A major earthquake in 1456 caused serious damage, and forced the population to move upstream, where the village was rebuilt. In 1688,

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destroyed much of the rebuilt village. The survivors rebuilt it on the hill above, where homes had not suffered very much damage, due to the rocky nature of the soil. San Lupo was later a fiefdom of various noble families. In 1877 the town was the starting point of a failed uprising against the Italian government by the anarchists Malatesta and Cafiero. There was mass emigration to the United States, Canada and South America at the end of the 19th century. After the Second World War there was another wave of emigration to Australia.

Nearby Towns

The municipality of San Lupo is surrounded by the following 6 municipalities: San Lorenzo Maggiore (BN) 1.3 km, Guardia Sanframondi (BN) 3.2 km, Casalduni (BN) 5.0 km, Pontelandolfo (BN) 5.6 km, Ponte (BN) 7.0 km, & Cerreto Sannita (BN) 7.1 km.

Festivals

The feast of the patron saint, San Lupo, is celebrated each year on the last Saturday of July. San Lupo citizens participate in the penitential rite of neighboring

Guardia Sanframondi Guardia Sanframondi is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Benevento, in Campania region, in Italy. It is best known for its wine production, the wine festival ''Vinalia'' and for its Christian penitential rite held every seven years. Geogr ...

References

External links

San Lupo
Cities and towns in Campania {{Campania-geo-stub