Borghi Autentici
Borghi Autentici in Molise
6 towns
Molise holds 6 Borghi Autentici sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Isernia and Campobasso provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Capracotta, Castel del Giudice, and Macchiagodena. 3 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Capracotta
Province: Isernia · 1,421 m
At 1,421 meters one of the highest communes of the Apennines, where a reported 2.56 meters of snow fell in about 18 hours in March 2015.
Castel del Giudice
Province: Isernia · 800 m
An Alto Molise borgo of 305 residents at 800m that rebuilt an abandoned schoolhouse as a diffuse hotel and recovered 5,000 ancient apple trees into an organic-orchard cooperative.
Macchiagodena
Province: Isernia · 868 m
Molise's white truffle capital: a 1,660-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.
Pizzone
Province: Isernia · 724 m
A 300-person Mainarde village at 724 meters, above the Volturno springs.
Ripalimosani
Province: Campobasso · 640 m
A sandstone-ridge village at 640 meters above the Biferno valley, the historic land of the funai rope makers and a Tintilia wine commune.
Pescopennataro
Province: Isernia · 1,190 m
An Alto Molise stone village at 1,190 meters, the paese della pietra e degli abeti, above a rare high-altitude white-fir forest.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Mergozzo
Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
A village on the western shore of a small lake cut off from its larger neighbor by river sediment, with a centuries-old elm on its lakefront piazza.
Alagna Valsesia
Province: Vercelli
A Walser village at 1,191 meters, at the head of the Valsesia, known to off-piste skiers worldwide.
Alfedena
Province: L'Aquila
At 914 meters at the head of the upper Sangro valley, the Samnite Aufidena, with a 15,000-tomb necropolis and a Roman conquest in 298 BC.
San Nicola Arcella
Province: Cosenza
A cliff village above the Tyrrhenian Riviera dei Cedri, where a sea arch fronts a cove only reachable on foot or by boat.
Pettorano sul Gizio
Province: L'Aquila
At 656 meters above the Gizio river, a Cantelmo fortress town that guarded the gateway to the Peligna valley for four hundred years.