Accommodations Historic Masonry Summer School | Segovia 2023

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HISTORIC MASONRY STRUCTURES

LODGING

Students will be lodging at the "Complesso residenziale di San Vittorino".
Address: Via Tenente Pellegrini, 18-24, 82100 Benevento BN, Italy

HISTORY
The monastery of San Vittorino was a female Benedictine foundation in Benevento, established around the year 910 nearby an already existing church and dissolved in 1806. Together with the abbeys of Santa Sofia, San Pietro and San Modesto, it was one of the four major monasteries of Lombard foundation in the city. The structures of the monastery, rather stratified, in the 17th century came to include an entire block, between the current via Raffaele Pellegrini, via delle Assise, via Alfonso De Blasio and vico II San Vittorino. At the moment they are divided between the University of Sannio and the Nicola Sala Conservatory. The lodging part of the Convent has been transformed into a residential building for students.

Student's Residence

LECTURES,WORKSHOPS & MEALS

Lectures, keynotes and coffee breaks will take place in "Complesso di Sant’Agostino". Co-working areas will be available for workshops and free Wi-Fi connection will be provided to all students. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (included in the course fee) will be served in the refectory of the convent every day.
Address: Via Sant'Agostino, 13, 82100 Benevento BN, Italy

HISTORY
The convent complex was founded in Benevento in the 13th century in the Trescene district, adjacent to a section of the city walls. It suffered significant damage in the 1688 earthquake. Subsequent reconstruction gave the complex, and especially the church, an 18th-century appearance.
The convent was closed in 1861, and the church in 1865. From that date, the convent complex served as a barracks for the Royal Carabinieri. In 1920, the new Parish of Sant'Agostino was inaugurated in the adjacent church of the same name. Restoration work following the 1980 earthquake gave the complex its current appearance.
The complex preserves numerous traces of its important past; examining these layers provides insight into the evolution that shaped it as it is today. Currently home to the Engineering lecture hall of the University of Sannio, it houses a single-nave church with valuable paintings and evidence of spoiled material, integrating religious history and modern reuse.

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