| Tocco Caudio | |
| Official Name: | Comune di Tocco Caudio |
| Coordinates: | 41.1333°N 52°W |
| Province: | (BN) |
| Mayor: | Gennaro Caporaso |
| Area Total Km2: | 27.2 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 1534 |
| Population As Of: | 1 January 2017 |
| Population Demonym: | Tocchesi |
| Elevation M: | 540 |
| Saint: | Saints Cosmas and Damian |
| Day: | 27 September |
| Postal Code: | 82030 |
| Area Code: | 0824 |
Tocco Caudio is a village and comune in the province of Benevento, in the Campania region of southern Italy. The old town was abandoned after a series of earthquakes in 1980 and 1981.
As with many ancient Longobard towns in this mountainous region of southern Italy, Tocco Caudio was built on a promontory ridge. Tocco Caudio's ridge is fairly small and somewhat isolated. This arrangement made the town easily defensible, while having ready access to ridge-top roads along which a traveller would not need to cross any rivers. Also, as was typical with medieval development, the town is fairly compact with narrow streets.
In 1962,1980 and 1981, earthquakes damaged much of the oldhistorical center of Tocco Caudio,which already carried the scars of numerous previous tremors. Rather to attempt to rebuild the historic town, the citizens were forced to completely abandon it and resettle around the ridge. Today there are essentially two Tocco Caudio: an empty Ghost Town with all the phantoms of the past,and a new relocated town aside, in a location called Friuni.