Ripalimosani

Ripalimosani sits at 640 meters on a sandstone ridge above the Biferno valley, six kilometers north of Campobasso. The village is historically defined as la terra dei funai, the land of the rope makers: between the nineteenth century and the early twentieth a small industry of hemp cordage flourished here, the long ropewalks laid out along the ridge above the valley. The Tintilia grape, the only indigenous red grape of Molise and a DOC since 2011, has its surviving vineyards in the hills around Campobasso, Ferrazzano, Cercemaggiore and Ripalimosani; one of the region's organic Tintilia producers, Agricola Vinica, works the slopes below the village.

The centro storico is stone, the mother church is Santa Maria Assunta, and the Convento di San Pietro Celestino sits on the edge of the borgo. Ripalimosani holds Borghi Autentici and Città del Vino at once, a combination it shares with few of its size in Molise.