Microavventure Sannite

SAMNIUM PART. 2 - My journey starts from Campobasso and soon goes uphill, leading me to Isernia. I pedal on the hills still dressed in winter, the wind is blowing and intense current is coming down from the Frosolone mountain. It will be an intense day. I planned to ride about 350 kilometers divided into two days. Among the different villages that I meet along the way, one strikes me the most, Carpinone.  I can see it from afar while pedaling through an oak forest and right in the middle of the old village the Caldora castle, a splendid 15th century monument, dominates the houses below. Sinuous and slow under the houses, the Carpino stream gushes out and passes in front of a large natural cave, where I take a break. Curious as I am, I explore its dark and humid rooms where some small bats hang on the walls. Second stop Isernia, Samnite / Roman city, famous for the onion festival and for the homo Aeserniensis, an ancient primitive man of the area.  While touring in its histor...

  tempo di lettura 2 min. INTRO: Samnium is a large territory that starts from Matese mountains and reaches the lands above the Trigno river, crosses the Biferno valley and climbs the green hills of Torella del Sannio, Macchiagodena and Campobasso, goes through the heights of Frosolone, Carovilli and Trivento, up to the beating heart of Pietrabbondante and Agnone, cradle of the people themselves, the brave Samnites. Shepherds and Warriors at the same time, people focused on herding and controlling the territory, ancestral supporters of freedom against the tyranny of the Roman Empire. Sannio is a territory where landscape and gastronomy come together to create wonder and delicacy, caciocavalli and pieces of cacio, "pezzata" and all kind of bread. "Samnium bikepacking story" project talks about a journey through history, a journey through tastes and flavors of yesteryear. SAMNIUM PART I: I head towards the Tratturo Lucera-Castel di Sangro, an ancient road which cr...