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Molise

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Cities:

The capital of Molise is Campobasso. Isernia is the capital of the respective province.

Must Sees:

In Campobasso, visitors can admire the historic center and the majestic battlemented castle of the Longobard period; the Romanesque churches of San Bartolomeo and San Giorgino. The church of Sant Antonino Abate with collection of carvings and wooden sculptures of sixteenth-century masters of Molise; the Romanesque Santa Maria della Strada, with a fifteenth-century Gothic sepulchre, fifteen kilometers from the city. In Isernia, the Civic Museum with Samnitic epigraphs and sculptures; the fourteenth-century Fontana della Fraterna; in Pastena, the monumental Sanctuary of the Addolorata of Castelpetroso, surrounded by a thick forest.

Food Specialties of Molise

oven, a specialty of Isernia
calcioni di ricotta rustici - rounds of pasta dough filled with ricotta, provolone and prosciutto fried in olive oil, often part of a fritto misto
baccalá alla cantalupese - salt cod cooked with peppers, capers, black olives, grapes, garlic
polenta maritata - slices of cornmeal fried in oil with garlic, layered with a filling of red beans and peperoncini and baked in the lepre a ciffe e ciaffe hare cooked in a marinade of vinegar and wine with plenty of herbs

Wines & wine regions of Molise

Whites: Biferno, Molise or del Molise, Pentro di Isernia

Reds: Biferno, Molise or del Molise, Pentro di Isernia