Day trips

Day trips from Campobasso

25 towns within 90 minutes

Closest first. Campobasso is 3 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.

Campobasso
Province: Campobasso · 701 m
3 minutes from Campobasso. Molise's regional capital and the smallest in Italy, 47,000 residents at 701m on a wooded Apennine ridge, with a centro storico that climbs the hillside in stone-paved switchbacks.
Ferrazzano
Province: Campobasso · 872 m
7 minutes from Campobasso. A hilltop borgo at 872 meters above Campobasso, called the Sentinel of Molise, where Robert De Niro's great-grandparents lived before sailing in 1887.
Ripalimosani
Province: Campobasso · 640 m
13 minutes from Campobasso. A sandstone-ridge village at 640 meters above the Biferno valley, the historic land of the funai rope makers and a Tintilia wine commune.
Oratino
Province: Campobasso · 780 m
14 minutes from Campobasso. A stonemason borgo at 780 meters above the Biferno, with a square tower on a limestone spur that an earthquake in 1456 left standing alone.
Sepino
Province: Campobasso · 698 m
31 minutes from Campobasso. A hilltop borgo at 698 meters at the foot of the Matese, two kilometers above the Roman Saepinum, the open-air city the sheep tracks built.
Civitacampomarano
Province: Campobasso · 520 m
43 minutes from Campobasso. The Molisan ghost-borgo of 302 residents that turned its abandoned centro storico into an open-air street-art village.
Frosolone
Province: Isernia · 894 m
43 minutes from Campobasso. A 900-meter blade-making town in the Matese foothills, called Italy's Toledo for the knives and scissors forged here since the 1800s.
Macchiagodena
Province: Isernia · 868 m
47 minutes from Campobasso. Molise's white truffle capital: a 1,648-resident hilltop borgo at 868m in the Apennine middle Molise, with intact medieval streets and 30+ active truffle hunters working the surrounding oak forests, the Molise white truffle harvest running October-December.
Guardialfiera
Province: Campobasso · 285 m
49 minutes from Campobasso. A hilltop village at 285 meters above the largest artificial lake in Molise.
Bagnoli del Trigno
Province: Isernia · 661 m
51 minutes from Campobasso. The 'Pearl of Molise', a 637-resident borgo built into and around a massive limestone outcrop above the Trigno valley, with a medieval castle rebuilt on its summit.
Isernia
Province: Isernia · 423 m
56 minutes from Campobasso. A provincial capital on a 423-meter rock spine, with a Paleolithic site dated 700,000 years and a thirteenth-century public fountain.
Larino
Province: Campobasso · 341 m
62 minutes from Campobasso. A Frentani and Roman town of 341 meters in the lower Biferno valley, where a Roman arena and a Gothic cathedral stand a short walk apart.
Guglionesi
Province: Campobasso · 369 m
66 minutes from Campobasso. A 369-meter hill town between the Biferno and Trigno valleys, founded by the Frentani in the fifth century BC and looking out toward the Adriatic.
Roccavivara
Province: Campobasso · 652 m
67 minutes from Campobasso. A 652-meter village above the Trigno river valley, home to the Romanesque Santuario della Madonna del Canneto with its 1223 ambone and 14th-century gothic Madonna del Sorriso.
Fornelli
Province: Isernia · 530 m
68 minutes from Campobasso. A walled medieval borgo at 530 meters with seven towers and the birthplace of Nancy Pelosi's mother, eight kilometers west of Isernia.
Agnone
Province: Isernia · 840 m
71 minutes from Campobasso. At 840 meters, town of the pontifical bell foundry and the fire procession that lights its streets every Christmas Eve.
Roccamandolfi
Province: Isernia · 850 m
71 minutes from Campobasso. At 850 meters at the foot of Monte Miletto, a Matese village of brigand legends, Lombard ruins, and a Tibetan bridge over the Callora canyon.
Termoli
Province: Campobasso · 15 m
74 minutes from Campobasso. Molise's only port, a walled promontory of fishermen's houses on the Adriatic, with the ferry pier for the Tremiti islands.
Montenero di Bisaccia
Province: Campobasso · 273 m
78 minutes from Campobasso. A tufa hill town at 273 meters above the northernmost stretch of Molise coast, home base of former magistrate Antonio Di Pietro and his vineyards.
Venafro
Province: Isernia · 222 m
78 minutes from Campobasso. A 222-meter town near the Lazio border where an emperor founded a colony and Pliny called the local oil the best in the Empire.
Castel San Vincenzo
Province: Isernia · 749 m
80 minutes from Campobasso. A 749-meter village near the Volturno source, sharing ground with one of medieval Europe's most powerful abbeys and a ninth-century frescoed crypt.
Scapoli
Province: Isernia · 668 m
80 minutes from Campobasso. Italy's zampogna bagpipe capital: a 586-resident borgo in the Mainarde at 668m, with a centuries-old tradition of hand-building the zampogna and the Bandiera Arancione plus national park signals.
Capracotta
Province: Isernia · 1,421 m
88 minutes from Campobasso. At 1,421 meters the second-highest commune in central Italy, holder of the world record for snowfall in 24 hours: 2.56 meters on 5 March 2015.
Pescopennataro
Province: Isernia · 1,190 m
88 minutes from Campobasso. An Alto Molise stone village at 1,190 meters, the paese della pietra e degli abeti, above a rare high-altitude white-fir forest.
Petacciato
Province: Campobasso · 225 m
88 minutes from Campobasso. A hilltop village at 225 meters on the Adriatic, with a Romanesque church in tuff and sandstone and a long sand beach below.

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