🏛️ Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.): The Santa Sofia complex, Benevento

Archaeology & Antiquity Italy Europe

The Santa Sofia complex is a Lombard-era ecclesiastical and defensive structure in Benevento, Campania, that represents the highest development of Lombard architecture during the kingdom's final centuries. The complex comprises a church, monastery, and cloister arranged in a fortified layout that reflects both spiritual authority and territorial control. The site ...