Editing Benevento (section)

===Rocca dei Rettori===
[[File:Rocca dei Rettori, a castle in Benevento, southern Italy.jpg|thumb|Rocca dei Rettori.]]
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The castle of Benevento, best known as ''Rocca dei Rettori'' or ''Rocca di Manfredi'', stands at the highest point of the town, commanding the valley of the rivers Sabato and Calore, and the two main ancient roads Via Appia and Via Traiana. The site had been already used by the Samnites, who had constructed here a set of defensive terraces, and the Romans, with a thermal plant (''Castellum aquae''), whose remains can be still seen in the castle garden. The [[Benedictines]] had a monastery there. It received the current name in the Middle Ages, when it became the seat of the Papal governors, the ''Rettori''.

The castle is in fact made by two distinct edifices: the Torrione ("Big Tower"), which was built by the Lombards starting from 871, and the Palazzo dei Governatori, built by the Popes from 1320.