Campitello Matese provides the best skiing in central Italy during the winter, while the historic beach town of Termoli on the Adriatic Ocean is enjoyed by local tourists during the summer. Target: Monte Muschiaturo, in the Matese Hills. Starting point: it is reached from Sepino, in Molise, at a height of 700 m.

You drive up to Santa Crocella-Rimavota, 1195 m above sea level, and after nine kilometres you reach the Crocella Pass, which separates Campania from Molise. You come to a fork, and there you can leave your car.

The route: to the right there is a walk, which we recommend, to Campitello, three or four kilometres away: a picnic area and a spring. To reach there you follow the Transmed markers. From above you can see a long stretch of the route, winding between hills and valleys. Instead, we turn to the left and after a hundred metres we leave the paved road, then we again turn left and go along a path between clearings of pasture and beech woods.

Again on the pipeline track, upwards, to the summit of Mount Muschiatura. Behind us is the Matese massif. There is a climb of about three hundred metres to be made, from 1195 to 1471 m a.s.l. The restoration works have been carried out, but the wire of the fences intended to protect the young trees has almost everywhere been cut by the shepherds, who want to use the area for grazing. This prevents the woods from closing up again. So you go up along a grassy, bright green pathway, edged by trees. At the top of the mount, there are no markers: the pipeline runs through a tunnel. The view all around is splendid: the Tammaro valley to the left and the valley of the Calore-Volturno to the right. In front, covered by the groves of trees, the valleys of the Benevento area. Again following the Transmed you rapidly descend amid the beeches as far as an old spring and drinking trough very recently restored (Fontana Cursarello), and shortly afterwards you reach the paved road, at a point barely a hundred metres lower down than the place where we left our car. Which means we have described a loop. Times: an hour and a half for a good walker. After the excursion a visit can be paid to Saepinum, at the crossing between the sheep track in the valley bottom (Abruzzo-Apulia) and the transversal hill track.

The settlement was established in the Augustan Age, in 2-4 AD. There are gates on the four sides, a forum, an amphitheatre and a museum. It was abandoned at the time of the Graeco-Gothic war (535-553). Today it is on the outskirts of Attilia, a district of Sepino, a town constructed in part using the old materials.