Torrecuso - Small village of Benevento, is a medieval jewel overlooking Mount Taburno and Valle del Calore. Its position makes perfectly understand the origin and the function it has played in past centuries: Torrecuso, in fact, has behind him the Pentime mount, seen as a natural defense of the city of Benevento, center of the powerful Lombard duchy. In addition, the sentries who were on guard could also keep an eye on the Alto Tammaro and the Fortore hills.

It has ancient origins: some date it to about 216 B.C. while others think it was already inhabited in 316 B.C., with an inhabited nucleus composed of some Etruscan refugees from the Tuscan city of Chiusi who for this reason called it Turris Clusii. Other scholars argue that Torrecuso derives from Torus or toronis meaning "high ground" or "hill", responding to the situation of the country; from Torus then the diminutive torricolus from which Torlicoso and finally Torrecuso. The old town, developed in the Lombard era, has remained almost intact: streets, or ramps, almost parallel that open into large picturesque corners, between arches and stone houses with open stairs. Narrow and winding streets that are all around the famous Palazzo Cito, home of the Cito, feudatories of Torrecuso, home to the first Museum of Contemporary Art of wine and the food and wine chain of Sannio with adjoining School of Taste, of which a wing today is the seat of the Town Hall.

Imposing the construction of the castrum marchesale in front of which you immediately understand that you are in a place born for defensive reasons. With the first sun of March, on the walls and on the roofs of the houses of Torrecuso, among the flowerbeds, in the gardens, in the hedges, the emblematic flowers of this country bloom. They are violets with shiny petals, slightly perfumed, dazzling yellow that looks like a thin gold leaf. I’m talking about the Golden Viola or the Spanish Viola. It seems, in fact, that the first seeds of this plant have arrived in Torrecuso thanks to a Spanish soldier at the service of the Marquis Carlo Andrea Caracciolo. Some, however, say that it was the marquis himself who brought the seeds from Spain, to pay homage to the capital of his fief. The flower was poetically described by Antonio Mellusi, in Ricordi della Patria