Molise

Italy's second-smallest and most consistently overlooked region — a circumstance that the few people who visit Molise appear to regard as the whole point. The landscape is rugged enough that the Romans built Pompeii before they fully controlled it, and the medieval villages that survived the twentieth century's emigration are among the most intact in the peninsula. The food is mountain food: lamb, pork, pasta shapes that exist nowhere else, and a wine scene that is producing serious Tintilia almost entirely without international attention.Our Molise coverage treats the region as what it is — not a curiosity, but a destination for the traveller who genuinely wants somewhere that has not yet been written about enough to change it.