The Province of Benevento (, ) is a province in the region of Campania in southern Italy. Its capital is the city of Benevento. It has a population of 257,968 in an area of across its 78 municipalities. one of the mountains of the Matese range, which separates the province of Benevento from Molise.

Municipalities

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  • Airola
  • Amorosi
  • Apice
  • Apollosa
  • Arpaia
  • Arpaise
  • Baselice
  • Benevento
  • Bonea
  • Bucciano
  • Buonalbergo
  • Calvi
  • Campolattaro
  • Campoli del Monte Taburno
  • Casalduni
  • Castelfranco in Miscano
  • Castelpagano
  • Castelpoto
  • Castelvenere
  • Castelvetere in Val Fortore
  • Cautano
  • Ceppaloni
  • Cerreto Sannita
  • Circello
  • Colle Sannita
  • Cusano Mutri
  • Dugenta
  • Durazzano
  • Faicchio
  • Foglianise
  • Foiano di Val Fortore
  • Forchia
  • Fragneto l'Abate
  • Fragneto Monforte
  • Frasso Telesino
  • Ginestra degli Schiavoni
  • Guardia Sanframondi
  • Limatola
  • Melizzano
  • Moiano
  • Molinara
  • Montefalcone di Val Fortore
  • Montesarchio
  • Morcone
  • Paduli
  • Pago Veiano
  • Pannarano
  • Paolisi
  • Paupisi
  • Pesco Sannita
  • Pietraroja
  • Pietrelcina
  • Ponte
  • Pontelandolfo
  • Puglianello
  • Reino
  • San Bartolomeo in Galdo
  • San Giorgio del Sannio
  • San Giorgio La Molara
  • San Leucio del Sannio
  • San Lorenzello
  • San Lorenzo Maggiore
  • San Lupo
  • San Marco dei Cavoti
  • San Martino Sannita
  • San Nazzaro
  • San Nicola Manfredi
  • San Salvatore Telesino
  • Sant'Agata de' Goti
  • Sant'Angelo a Cupolo
  • Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte
  • Santa Croce del Sannio
  • Sassinoro
  • Solopaca
  • Telese Terme
  • Tocco Caudio
  • Torrecuso
  • Vitulano

Demographics

As of 2026, the population is 257,968, of which 49.3% are male, and 50.7% are female. Minors make up 13.9% of the population, and seniors make up 25.7%.

Immigration

As of 2025, the foreign-born population is 17,006, making up 6.6% of the total population. The 5 largest foreign countries of origin are Switzerland (2,407), Romania (2,063), Ukraine (1,525), Germany (1,063) and Morocco (832).

Main sights

Benevento

thumb|left|[[Arch of Trajan (Benevento)|Arch of Trajan]]

The importance of Benevento in classical times is vouched for by the many remains of antiquity which it possesses, of which the most famous is the triumphal arch erected in honour of Trajan by the senate and people of Rome in 114, with important reliefs relating to its history. Enclosed in the walls, this construction marked the entrance in Benevento of the Via Traiana, the road built by the Spanish emperor to shorten the path from Rome to Brindisi. The reliefs show the civil and military deeds of Trajan. A great part of the arch is decorated with scenes in bas relief: particularly the pillars directed to the town represent scenes of peace and military scenes. The two faces of the Arch are identical in the arrangement of the reliefs. That the reliefs are for the most part not merely fanciful, nor chiefly conventional and decorative in theme and treatment, is also clear at first sight. They plainly refer to actual events and actions in the life of Trajan, whose effigy, sometimes decapitated, appears in all but two of them, one of which is the only one on all the Arch that is substantially defective. The height of the monument is of 15,60 meter, with an arch of 8 meter, a structure composed of limestone rocks and a marble covering. The arch was put during the Middle Age in the fenced area of the town, in order to represent the Porta Aurea, on account of its fair proportions and the wealth and excellence of its sculptural adornments. This cloister today is the location of the Museo del Sannio. The church interior was once totally frescoed by Byzantine artists: fragments of these paintings, portraying the Histories of Christ, can be still seen in the two side apses. Santa Sofia was almost destroyed by the earthquake of 1688, and rebuilt in Baroque forms by commission of the then cardinal Orsini of Benevento (later Pope Benedict XIII). The original forms were hidden, and were recovered only after the discussed restoration of 1951. In 2011, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a group of seven inscribed as Longobards in Italy, Places of Power (568-774 A.D.).

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The Benevento Cathedral, with its arcaded façade and incomplete square campanile (begun in 1279 by the archbishop Romano Capodiferro) dates from the 9th century.