Cerreto Sannita is a town in the province of Benevento located in the upper valley of the Titerno River, at the gateway to the Matese regional park. The town is structured on a regular layout having been entirely rebuilt to a design by Giovanni Battista Manni and at the behest of Count Marzio Carafa and his brother Marino, after the June 5, 1688 earthquake had razed the old Cerreto to the ground. A fief of the Sanframondo family from 1151 to 1460, in 1483 it passed to the Carafa family. In the 17th century, it became the seat of the bishops of the Telesina diocese, which in 1986 became the diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti. Cerreto Sannita is famous for the centuries-old art of ceramics, officially recognized in 1997 by decree of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Crafts. Inside a former 18th-century convent it is possible to visit the Museo civico e della Ceramica Cerretese.
