Church of San Filippo in Benevento

Between the Triggio district and the Fravola district in Benevento stands the church of San Filippo, built in 1724 to a design by Filippo Raguzzini at the behest of Archbishop Orsini, the future Pope Benedict XIII, and consecrated in 1727. It was entrusted to the Crociferi Fathers, who opened a college with an orphanage there; later an institute for poor and orphaned girls was built next door.We really like its central plan: the arms of a Greek cross branch out from a circle covered by a polygonal dome, now taller than the original after restoration. Inside we find an 18th-century Madonna of the Rosary and a Saint Philip by Nicola Ciletti, while the apse holds a large fresco by Trivisonno. In front of the church, a small garden holds a bronze statue of the Infant of Prague.