Bandiera Arancione
Bandiera Arancione in Molise
5 towns
Molise carries 5 of the Bandiera Arancione towns we cover. They are in the Isernia and Campobasso provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Roccamandolfi, Agnone, and Ferrazzano. 2 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Roccamandolfi
Province: Isernia · 850 m
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.
Agnone
Province: Isernia · 840 m
At 840 meters, town of the pontifical bell foundry and the fire procession that lights its streets every Christmas Eve.
Ferrazzano
Province: Campobasso · 872 m
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.
Frosolone
Province: Isernia · 894 m
A 900-meter blade-making town in the Matese foothills, called Italy's Toledo for the knives and scissors forged here since the 1800s.
Scapoli
Province: Isernia · 668 m
Italy's zampogna bagpipe capital: a 576-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.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Taormina
Province: Messina
A terrace on Monte Tauro above the Ionian, with Etna on the southern horizon.
Rocca Imperiale
Province: Cosenza
Frederick II's Hohenstaufen fortress at the Calabria–Basilicata border, a Borgo più Bello d'Italia perched on a hill above the Ionian coast, with the castello at the summit and the locally-grown limone di Rocca Imperiale IGP scenting the orchards.
Crecchio
Province: Chieti
A 209-meter hill town between the Adriatic and the Maiella, capital of Italy for one night in 1943 when the king slept in its castle.
Casale Marittimo
Province: Pisa
A concentric stone borgo at 214 meters above the Val di Cecina, built where a seventh-century BC Etruscan outpost of Volterra once stood.
Pineto
Province: Teramo
A planned twentieth-century beach town named for D'Annunzio's poem, with the sixteenth-century Cerrano tower anchoring Abruzzo's first marine protected area.