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Molise (Italy): my art, food and hystory travel guide to Molise

MY ART, FOOD AND HISTORY TRAVEL GUIDE TO MOLISE, ITALY When I lived in Rome, I thought many times of taking the train and going to Molise, to visit Campobasso and Isernia are the two main cities. It would have taken me about 4 hours, more or less because transport in Italy is not exactly the best things in Italy. However, I never did.  Now after so many years I have proposed it to Paolo as part of our summer tour 2021. I said to myself: why not? At the time, I saw Molise as a secret island, out of time and out of the world, and above all off the radar for most tourists, including Italians.  And then suddenly I wanted to dispel the famous motto: Molise does not exist! I don't know who launched "Il Molise non esiste", but I wanted stubbornly to disavow it in person. And so after our Basilicata coast to coast as they say, we headed straight to Campobasso. Before leaving I had also read a nice article on Vanity Fair which explained to me how in the last two years, especially