Visit the Maitine Zoo in Benevento

Not far from Pietrelcina, in the municipality of Pesco Sannita, we find the Maitine zoo, the Benevento zoological garden with animals from all over the world.

The zoo is 9 km from Benevento and can be reached via the A16 exiting at Benevento, continuing towards Benevento ovest and following the signs for Pesco Sannita-Pietrelcina, you will find the structure in via Fontana dell’Occhio.

The structure of the Maitine Zoo of Benevento hosts over 300 animals from America, Africa, Australia and Eurasia, all kept in excellent conditions and appropriate to their habitat.

In the farm area there are Tibetan goats, pigs, ducks, sheep, donkeys, ponies and guinea pigs all approachable under the supervision of the zoo’s professionals.

For the little ones there is also the toyland, an area made to measure for children with games and slides.

The zoo is also equipped with picnic areas, a bar-shop, and a farmhouse “il gelso delle Maitine” that offers seasonal cuisine with zero-mile products.

Il Casone e le sue Volte is a characteristic tourist accommodation facility with comfortable and welcoming rooms and a characteristic trattoria with the philosophy of enhancing ancient flavors, jealously preserved and handed down over time.

A healthy and genuine cuisine manages to reward taste and imagination by enhancing the use of fresh and home-made products. A weekend at Il Casone e le sue volte is the ideal choice to get in touch with a lush and uncontaminated nature that with its green sea bathes charming villages that preserve peasant and religious traditions such as Pietrelcina, birthplace of “San Pio”.