Cusano Mutri
10 places
- Nature & hiking
Cusano Mutri e le Gole di Caccaviola
Cusano Mutri (BN)
The Titerno has carved the limestone into a gorge of waterfalls and green pools, where the light filters down between the walls: you descend with rope and helmet, in the heart of the Matese.
- Hiking
Gole di Caccaviola
Cusano Mutri (BN)
Carved by the Titerno in the Matese, the gorges of Caccaviola are traversed with harness and helmet, among roaring waterfalls and pools where the light barely filters through.
VillagesCusano Mutri
Cusano Mutri (BN)
Houses of white limestone clinging to the slopes of the Mutria, medieval alleys and porticoes that survived the 1688 earthquake, and in autumn the air that smells of porcini mushrooms.
- Nature & hiking
Forre di Lavello
Cusano Mutri (BN)
The Titerno has carved the limestone into deep gorges, and a path along an ancient Samnite mule track skirts them among caves, bridges and the constant sound of water.
- In the water & diving
Mulino di Zi' Fiore e Ponte del Mulino
Cusano Mutri (BN)
A mill carved into the rock face, still since the Fifties, reached by an arched bridge once crossed by the Oscan mule track. The water keeps turning a wheel that is no longer there.
- Hiking
Gole di Conca Torta
Cusano Mutri (BN)
A stone's throw from the houses, the Reviola torrent has cut a limestone gullet between little waterfalls and green pools: you go through in a harness, hanging from steel cables, with the water under your feet.
- Sacred art
Chiesa di Santa Maria del Castagneto
Cusano Mutri (BN)
Founded at the end of the 7th century amid the chestnut groves, survivor of earthquakes and centuries of neglect: a rural church that seems to grow out of the wood, where silence is part of the furnishing.
VillagesCivitella Licinio
Cusano Mutri (BN)
A hamlet that once belonged to Cerreto and has kept the slow gait of its stone houses, the Matese at its back and the vineyards in front. No tourist signs: only alleys and old men who greet you.
Nature & hikingBocca della Selva
Cusano Mutri (BN)
At 1,400 metres, immense beech woods and the snow that buries the mountain huts in winter: the highest plateau of the Sannio, where the Matese stops being a postcard and becomes real mountain.
HikingMonte Mutria
Cusano Mutri (BN)
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three metres of limestone ridge: on clear days, the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic in a single glance. Below, the valleys where the Titerno is born.