Pontelandolfo

Discover the municipality of Pontelandolfo

The town of Pontelandolfo is located at 27 km of Benevento and is located at an altitude of 410 meters.

The municipality of Pontrandolfo is located in a natural landscape of olive groves and forests and is situated between the Calvello and Sauco mountains, which separate the Tammaro valley from the Lenta valley.

Various archaeological findings have shown that the entire area was inhabited in the Samnite-Roman period.
It was around 980 A.D., a period when the territory was owned by Landolfo, Prince of Benevento, that the current settlement was built and named ‘Pontis Landulphi’.
The current urban layout developed around a majestic fortress from the Norman-Swabian period, of which the imposing tower is still visible.

At the time of the conflicts between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, the village grew considerably due to the numerous exiles from Siena.

Under the rule of Ferdinand II of Bourbon, the activities related to sheep farming and handicrafts revived, and the production of textiles and embroidery increased, of which the ‘woollen cloth’ of Pontelandolfo remains very famous.

After the Unification of Italy, Pontelandolfo and the neighbouring municipality of Casaduni were motivated to repress the phenomenon of brigandage, both of which are remembered in history as the massacre of 14 August 1861.

Today, the municipality has a population of around 2,000 inhabitants.

How to get to Pontelandolfo ?

From Pescara: take the A14 motorway, exit Termoli and continue in direction of Boiano-Benevento. Then take the Campobasso direction (SS 87) and exit at Pontelandolfo.

From Rome: take the A1 motorway, exit Caianello and continue in direction of Benevento. Before reaching Benevento, take direction Campobasso (SS 87) and exit at Pontelandolfo.

From Naples – Caserta: take the A1 motorway, exit Caserta Sud-Maddaloni, then Montesarchio and Benevento. After Benevento, take the direction of Campobasso (SS 87) and exit at Pontelandolfo.

From Salerno – Avellino: take the A16 motorway, exit Benevento. Drive along the motorway junction and pass Benevento. Then take the Campobasso direction (SS 87) and exit at Pontelandolfo.

From Bari: take the A16 motorway, Benevento exit. Drive along the motorway junction and pass Benevento. Then take the direction of Campobasso (SS 88) and exit at Pontelandolfo.

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