and 210 A.D. It is one of the few buildings of Roman times and testifies the importance reached by benevento after the opening of the Via Appia Traiana. It is located in the western part of the city. The stratified houses over the centuries on the theatre have probably contributed to its conservation. The remains, brought to light and restored in the last post-war period, reveal that it was a three-storey building conceived with criteria of particular grandeur, as demonstrated by the richness of some ornamentations and the feeling that in the theater there were place for 20,000 people. Currently only the lower order of the building remains: the arches of the facade communicate with the interior through a series of corridors alternating with stairs; the semicircular cavea joins at the ends with the scene, while laterally the 'paroids' develop (two corridors that enter in special rooms that served as a meeting place in the breaks of the show); even the scene stands out for the amplitude of the proportions. According to the most reliable assumptions, the theater stood near the forum to which it was connected by some public buildings including the basilica. Sant'Ilario. The documentary sources speak of the "Ecclesia Vocabolo Sancti Ylari" from the 12th century, but the excavations carried out date its origin to the 7th\8th century. It is called Sant'Ilario a Port'Aurea, as it is built near the Arch of Trajan. Remains of a pre-existing archaeological area have been found. The church is rectangular in shape and develops on an artificial embankment. In late antiquity, the entire complex was abandoned and buried. The church is composed of an apsed hall in two slightly unequal bells. The cover of the outside is formed by two separate tiburi. The rest of the building is made of materials of result, both as reinforcement in the corners, both with decorative function on the central wall and near the entrance. A Monasterum Sancti Ylari was attached to the church. The church was terribly damaged by the earthquake of 1688. In 1712 it was deconsecrated and used as a farmhouse. The restoration of the entire building was carried out in 2000. The Palazzo di Paolo V (16th century). The Church of San Salvatore, dating from the High Middle Ages. The Gothic Church of San Francesco alla Dogana. Located to the north-east of Piazza del Duomo, incorporated between alleys and palaces in