When we talk about travels in Campania too often we think of the coastal cities, the sea, the city of Naples, or even the Vesuvian archeology of the buried cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabia. In this way, however, we tend to underestimate the importance of the Campania hinterland: an area rich in surprising beauty among nature, art, archaeology.

We are talking about Sannio, a historical-geographical region that roughly corresponds to the province of Benevento, so-called because of the ancient presence of the Samnites, an Italic population that lived in these places in the seventh and sixth centuries BC.