Cusano Mutri
Cusano Mutri (BN)
Hidden gemVillages
The story
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.
More gems in Cusano Mutri
- 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.
- 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.
More gems: Villages
VillagesMercato di Porta Nolana
zona Garibaldi
Beneath the Aragonese arch of Porta Nolana the fish market erupts with voices, crates of seawater and shellfish still alive: Naples at its most unvarnished.
VillagesLa Pignasecca
Montesanto
The oldest market in Naples unspools through the alleys of Montesanto: fish stalls, fry shops and old-time botteghe (traditional shops) in a hubbub that never stops.
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S. Lucia
At the foot of Castel dell'Ovo, the little fishermen's borgo (old village) is now a marina of boats and restaurants: stone, salt air and the legend of Virgil's egg hidden in the foundations.
- Villages
Borgo di Casamale
Somma Vesuviana
The medieval heart enclosed by Aragonese walls and towers, a tangle of alleys where every four years the Festa delle Lucerne lights thousands of little lamps.
- Villages
Marina Grande di Sorrento
Sorrento
Below the town's cliffs, the old fishermen's borgo (old village) with houses faded by the salt, boats hauled ashore and trattorias fragrant with frying.
- Villages
Marina Corricella
Procida
The oldest fishermen's borgo (old village) on Procida, an amphitheatre of pastel houses tumbling down to the harbour, where the boats sleep beneath the hanging laundry.