the heart of the historic center, there is Piazza Dogana with the church and convent of San Francesco. Here stood the papal customs, through which the goods passed and were taxed. The thirteenth-century church of San Francesco, that stands in the center of the square, is linked to the coming of the saint in the city, in 1222. It was built by incorporating the ancient church of San Costanzo, which in 1243 was donated to the religious from lords Stampalupo, Del Giudice and Cantalupo. After the earthquake of 1702, the architects Fontana rebuilt the high altar, which Archbishop Vincenzo Maria Orsini consecrated to the Immaculate Virgin. The facade of the church is very simple, the interior is in Gothic style, with a single nave with wooden ceiling. The apse has some frescoes and the church is flanked by two cloisters. The Baroque Churches of Annunziata, already existing in the medieval era, but entirely rebuilt between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries after the earthquake of 1688, this church is a hall building with three chapels on each side. It assumes particular relevance for its location on a widening that still retains original features of pre-settecentesco plant. In medieval times, after the passage of Benevento under the papal domain, the widening was in fact one of the nodal points of the city, along the Via Annunziata which, starting from the Rocca, followed the southern route of the walls up to Porta Rufina. of San Bartolomeo, dedicated to the patron apostle of the city, it replaced, after the earthquakes of 1688 and 1702, the oldest basilica of San Bartolomeo that stood in the area of Piazza Orsini, adjacent to the cathedral. In 1705, in place of the original building, was placed a large baroque fountain destroyed by bombings in 1943. The new basilica, located along Corso Garibaldi, was built between 1726 and 1729 and consecrated by Pope Benedict XIII. It, although partially using a primitive project by Fra Tommaso di Sangiovanni (prior of San Diodato), is in fact the work of Raguzzini to whom we owe not only some substantial planovolumetric modifications, but also the elegant stucco decorations and the two-tiered front overlapping on high plinth. of San Filippo. Territorial subdivisions Frazioni, or wards, include: Acquafredda, Cancelleria, Capodimonte, Caprarella, Cardoncielli, Cardoni, Cellarulo, Chiumiento, Ciancelle, Ciofani, Cretazzo, Epitaffio, Francavilla, Gran Potenza, Imperatore, Lammia, Madonna della Salute, Masseria del Ponte, Masseria La Vipera, Mascambruni, Montecalvo,