Benevento (Campania). Church of Santa Sofia (760). The church, a Unesco world heritage site, is located along the Corso, in Piazza Matteotti or Santa Sofia, a dispute in progress. It was built by the Longobards, but remodeled several times, it first assumed the Romanesque style, then Baroque. The church was entitled in Greek to the Divine Wisdom of Christ (Αγίαν ΣοΦίαν), like the basilica of the same name in Constantinople, and built on the model of Liutprando's palatine chapel in Pavia. It became the official temple of the Longobards and of their prince Arechi II, who lost Pavia, had the last bastion of his gens in Benevento. In the eighteenth century the church, damaged by the earthquake, took on Baroque forms, from stellar to circular, which were subsequently further modified. The bell tower (1119-1703), is considerably distanced from the facade, on the edge of the ancient walls. On their walls it bears the coats of arms of the successive dominations and the marble tables evoking the extension of the ancient Sannio. Around 1806, under Talleyrand, the fountain was built with an obelisk supported by lions. #hagiasophia #santasofia #hagiasophia #benevento #campania #ig_benevento_ #pezzidisannio #model #sannio #pavia #palatine #wisdom #constantinople #worldheritagesite #worldheritage #heritage #piazzamatteotti #inprogress #travel #traveling #visiting #instatravel #travelling #instatraveling #mytravelgram #travelgram #travelingram #massimopistis #sovVERSIvi #estremisti Information for the purchase of my new book "Estremisti!": the book at a cost of 12.00 euros (120 pages), can be ordered in bookstores (ISBN 978-88-591-5719-9 - Publisher Aletti) or online on the page http://www.alettieditore.it/emersi/2019/pistis.html from the link below. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQSRy2FYHr/?igshid=pr1f33nw0c98
