Benevento

For 2025 the Department of Finance lists a single municipal IRPEF surcharge of 0.8% for Benevento. The table notes that the rate was not sent by the municipality but entered ex officio, confirming resolution no. 22 of 14 July 2011. Rents, prices and the transport pass are in the data.

In Benevento the municipal Housing Policy Office allocates municipal homes and those of ACER Campania (department at via Mommsen 6) to those entitled in the regional ranking; applications are made on the Campania Region portal. Rents and prices are in the data.

The municipality sits in Palazzo Mosti (via Annunziata 138). Registering as a resident from another municipality or abroad is done at the counter; a change of address within the city is declared online; appointments are booked on the website. The S. Colomba market follows municipal notices.

To enter with a dog, cat or ferret you need a microchip, an EU pet passport or health certificate and a valid rabies vaccination. Mandatory registration in the regional pet register, lead at all times and a muzzle to hand. Pets allowed on trains under Trenitalia rules and in apartment buildings by law.

Rules depend on who is arriving: EU/EEA/Swiss citizens (no visa, registration with the Comune after three months), non-EU citizens for stays up to 90 days (Schengen rule, type C visa where required) and for long stays (national type D visa and a residence permit within eight working days of arrival).

Benevento's urban service and the Benevento basin are part of AIR Campania's network, which also publishes the Salerno–Avellino–Benevento–Campobasso line. Tickets and monthly passes are bought online or with the Unico Campania app. The pass price is in the data.

Euro, cards accepted almost everywhere, a legal cash limit. Anyone living in Italy for most of the year is tax resident and taxed on worldwide income under three IRPEF brackets; specific regimes exist for the self-employed (forfettario), inbound workers, foreign pensioners and new residents. Contributions go to INPS; annual return with the 730 or Redditi form.

The city falls under ASL Benevento, which has five districts including Benevento. The GP and paediatrician are chosen at the district registry office or online (Portale Salute del Cittadino, "Campania in Salute" app). Two out-of-hours doctor sites serve the district; the 118 control centre is at via Delcogliano 1.

Non-EU pensioners enter with the elective residence visa, EU pensioners through free movement; public healthcare is accessible by compulsory or voluntary registration. Optional 7% regime on foreign income for those moving to small southern municipalities. Cheap houses in villages, services concentrated in cities.

Benevento falls under the Irpinia Sannio Chamber of Commerce, which publishes an annual report on the provinces of Avellino and Benevento (the 2025 edition was presented on 1 December 2025). Tourism around the Santa Sofia UNESCO site is the subject of an ISNART report from July 2026.

A VAT number (partita IVA) from the Agenzia delle Entrate for freelancers; for businesses the Comunicazione Unica to the Registro delle Imprese, which also notifies the Agenzia, INPS, INAIL and SUAP. Main forms: sole proprietorship, SNC/SAS, SRL and SRLS, SPA. Compulsory PEC, annual chamber fee, e-invoicing. Invitalia incentives; non-EU citizens need a self-employment permit or the investor visa.

The Università degli Studi del Sannio is based in piazza Guerrazzi and is organised in the departments DEMM (law, economics, management, quantitative methods), DING (engineering) and DST (science and technology). Residences are assigned through the single ADISURC call; new buildings in the centre are also in use in 2026/27.

The municipality's history page tells Benevento as a Samnite centre, a Roman colony, the capital of a Lombard duchy and then principality, a papal city until 1860, and a city heavily hit by the 1943 bombings. The boar from the legend of Diomedes appears on the municipal coat of arms.

In the seismic classification of the Civil Protection Department (updated May 2025) Benevento is in zone 1, the most hazardous. According to ISPRA IdroGEO about 7.4% of the municipal territory has medium flood hazard; landslides weigh less. Temperatures, rainfall and PM10 exceedance days are in the data.

Visitors see the Santa Sofia complex, part of the UNESCO site of the Longobards in Italy (2011), the Museo del Sannio in its cloister, with the Egyptian sculptures of the Temple of Isis, and the Arch of Trajan, open Tuesday to Sunday without booking.

Benevento's municipal Sports Service awards gyms, sports grounds, swimming pools and municipal stadiums through public calls and grants temporary use of facilities on request; the rules are in the regulation approved on 19 June 2025. The Villa comunale park hosts non-profit events with municipal clearance.