{{Infobox Italian comune | name = Vitulano | official_name = Comune di Vitulano | native_name = | image_skyline = Panorama vitulano.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_shield = Vitulano-Stemma.gif | shield_alt = | shield_size = px | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|41|11|N|14|39|E|type:city(3,030)_region:IT|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = Campania | province = Benevento (BN) | frazioni = | mayor_party = | mayor = Raffaele Scarinzi | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 35.99 | population_footnotes = <ref name="istat">All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.</ref><ref name="vitulano">{{Cite web|url=https://www.istat.it/it/dati-analisi-e-prodotti/contenuti-interattivi/popolazione-residente|title=Calcolo della popolazione residente|website=www.istat.it|access-date=Apr 8, 2020}}</ref> | population_total = 2920 | population_as_of = 1 January 2017 | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = Vitulanesi | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 430 | twin1 = | twin1_country = | saint = | day = | postal_code = 82038 | area_code = 0824 | website = {{official website|http://www.comunevitulano.it/}} | footnotes = }} '''Vitulano''' is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about {{cvt|50|km}} northeast of Naples and about {{cvt|12|km}} northwest of Benevento.
Vitulano borders the following municipalities: Campoli del Monte Taburno, Castelpoto, Cautano, Foglianise, Frasso Telesino, Guardia Sanframondi, Paupisi, San Lorenzo Maggiore, Solopaca, Torrecuso.
==Main sights== ===Santissima Annunziata convent===
According to tradition, the convent was founded in 1440 by Saint Bernardino of Siena. It was part of a Foglianise parish until 1852, when it was incorporated in the ''comune'' of Vitulano. In 1884 the cemetery of the latter municipality was installed in the garden of the church.<ref>{{cite web|title=Comune di Vitulano (BN) - Sito Ufficiale|url=http://www.comunevitulano.it/convento.aspx|website=www.comunevitulano.it|access-date=18 November 2017|language=it}}</ref> In July 1991 pope John Paul II gave it the title of minor basilica.<ref>{{cite web|title=Basilica della SS. Annunziata, Vitulano, Benevento, Italy|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/italy/1263.htm|website=www.gcatholic.org|access-date=18 November 2017}}</ref>
===Santa Maria in Gruptis=== Near Vitulano, but belonging to the ''comune'' of Foglianise, are the ruins of the Santa Maria in Gruptis abbey, founded around the year 940 and deconsecrated in 1705. It was used by several monastic orders, the first of which were the Benedictines.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ferretta|first1=Cosimo|last2=Martone|first2=Luigi|last3=Russo|first3=Filippo|title=La Carta Geoturistica dell'area del Monte Camposauro nell'ambito del Parco Naturale Regionale del Taburno – Camposauro (Campania)|url=http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/public_files/geologia-e-turismo/8-4.pdf|access-date=17 November 2017|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Montagne e non solo|url=http://www.comunevitulano.it/montagneenonsolo.pdf|website=comunevitulano.it|access-date=17 November 2017|language=it|format=pdf|archive-date=28 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328085758/http://www.comunevitulano.it/montagneenonsolo.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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{{Province of Benevento}} {{authority control}}
Category:Cities and towns in Campania
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