Parco Nazionale
Parco Nazionale in Molise
8 towns
Molise holds 8 Parco Nazionale sites inside our catalogue. They cluster in the Isernia and Campobasso provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Fornelli, Isernia, and Pizzone. 5 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Fornelli
Province: Isernia · 530 m
A walled medieval borgo at 530 meters with seven towers and the birthplace of Nancy Pelosi's mother, eight kilometers west of Isernia.
Isernia
Province: Isernia · 423 m
A provincial capital on a 423-meter rock spine, with a Paleolithic site dated 700,000 years and a thirteenth-century public fountain.
Pizzone
Province: Isernia · 724 m
A 313-person Mainarde village at 724 meters in the Molise sector of the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park, above the Volturno springs.
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.
Scapoli
Province: Isernia · 668 m
Italy's zampogna bagpipe capital — a 586-resident borgo in the Mainarde at 668m, with a centuries-old tradition of hand-building the zampogna (Italian bagpipe), an annual International Bagpipe Festival in July drawing players from Galicia, Scotland, Bulgaria, and 15+ other countries, and the Bandiera Arancione + Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise national park signals.
Sepino
Province: Campobasso · 698 m
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.
Venafro
Province: Isernia · 222 m
A 222-meter town near the Lazio border where Augustus founded a colony and Pliny called the olive oil the best in the Roman Empire.
Castel San Vincenzo
Province: Isernia · 749 m
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.
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Province: Padova
Europe's oldest thermal town on the Euganean Hills' eastern slope, where 80°C bromo-iodine springs have been drawing bathers since the eighth century BC.
Bosa
Province: Oristano
A colour-washed riverside town on Sardinia's only navigable river, with a Malaspina castle on the hill and the tanneries of Sas Conzas along the Temo.
Castagnole delle Lanze
Province: Asti
An Asti hill town at 298 meters between Langhe and Monferrato, with two Baroque churches and a nineteenth-century astronomical tower.