Luigi Gamberale was a professor, writer, principal and translator, born in Agnone in the first half of the nineteenth century, a particularly significant period for the culture of upper Molise. Discover this moment of history together with the eclectic figure of Gamberale and the initiatives of the Centro Studi Alto Molise.
The Way of San Francesco Caracciolo is a project that re-evaluates the naturalistic realities and small depopulated villages of Central Italy, through a network organized between different regions in the footsteps of the last journey of San Francesco Caracciolo from Loreto to Naples. Molise represents one of the fundamental parts of the route. A slow and respectful walking path in the sign of...
In the first stretch of the Verrino river, near the village of Agnone, in the Upper Molise, the water forms suggestive waterfalls that, in the past centuries, have fed an ancient copper foundry, a hydroelectric power station and numerous mills.
The Santè Soup is a typical Molise dish based on broth, stale bread, meatballs and stringy cheese, usually prepared during the Christmas holidays. Legend has it that the recipe was born at the end of the fourteenth century in Agnone in homage to Queen Giovanna II; other hypotheses see the dish as a contamination from Tharida, a soup symbol of the Islamic tradition. Today, depending on the...
Ready to discover the masterpieces of eighteenth-century painting in our region? The works of Paolo Gamba, linked to the Neapolitan Baroque, are the undisputed protagonists and most of them can be easily admired in some churches in the province of Campobasso and in the village of Agnone.