If you’d like to visit a town with a lot of spooky folklore associated with it then make your way to Benevento in Campania, nicknamed the ‘City of Witches!’ Book into a beautiful villa rental in Campania where you can visit Benevento and other freaky attractions with ease.
The stories came into being when the leaders of the lands including Benevento called the Longobards enforced their pagan laws among the people from 568 AD. They despised Catholicism and practised bizarre rituals to their pagan gods such as decorating trees with animal skins, brewing potions and casting spells!
Ever since, Benevento became associated with witchcraft legends and the supernatural. Today, tourists can buy fun witch inspired crafts and sip a fiery potion called Strega liquor made from over 70 herbs and spices!
Visit the creepy cave outside Naples’s city walls in Campania where over 40,000 victims of the Black Plague were buried and the nearby San Gaudioso catacombs.
In Tuscany, brave a tour around the creepy torture museum in San Gimignano which displays gruesome contraptions used to interrogate victims during the Inquisition.
Ever since, Benevento became associated with witchcraft legends and the supernatural. Today, tourists can buy fun witch inspired crafts and sip a fiery potion called Strega liquor made from over 70 herbs and spices!
Visit the creepy cave outside Naples’s city walls in Campania where over 40,000 victims of the Black Plague were buried and the nearby San Gaudioso catacombs.
In Tuscany, brave a tour around the creepy torture museum in San Gimignano which displays gruesome contraptions used to interrogate victims during the Inquisition.
Or head underground beneath the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Narni, Umbria to see what was an actual torture chamber! Rome city is home to many spooky attractions to visit during your holiday here such as the San Gaudioso catacombs and some churches housing relics.
These relics are the body parts of saints such as the ‘doubting finger of Thomas’ which is sure to send shivers down your spine when you see it!
Come to Italy and give yourself a scare if you dare!
These relics are the body parts of saints such as the ‘doubting finger of Thomas’ which is sure to send shivers down your spine when you see it!
Come to Italy and give yourself a scare if you dare!
Photo credits
picture 1: Decan / CC BY-SA 3.0;
picture 2: Mattia_Luigi_Nappi / CC BY-SA 3.0;
picture 1: Decan / CC BY-SA 3.0;
picture 2: Mattia_Luigi_Nappi / CC BY-SA 3.0;