Matese.biz - A travel in the "Regional Park of Matese" with its imposing taps, the numerous paths and medioeval villages, beautiful landscape to stamp and to ride on horseback or on a mountain bike, the blue sky marked by the wings of the hang glider, tastes and perfumes untouched in their fragrance: mushrooms, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, that you can find in some unpolluted places. Here still survive old trades, popular music, song, tales, job tools, typical costumes, it is in these typical expressions, that they assume characteristic and original aesthetic features, giving so the idea of tradition and values of our people. In this place are born agricultural products and works of the intellect that are so rare to the point of being unique; chestnuts, olive oil, mushrooms, pecorino cheese, caciocavallo, "burrini", sacked, fournace products, wine, the "peschiole", roast chestnuts, mint and pumpkin marmalades. Furthermore, art, creativity, fantasy: these are the colour of ceramics, copper, the inlaid wood, the old craft-made shops, the pasta homemade, the typical dresses. The map that will take across the paths of this little enchanted world is ready to make you find that the wonder is still possible, among the alleys of a village clung on the top of a bridge or under an old portal, or in an old courtyard, where life is on a human scale.

The immense territory of Matese massif is a land with strong contrasts, where the border between the countryside and the nature is never in contrast.
  Among valleys, hills and mountains we find some clean small villages and immense and fascinating woods; a territory that alternates economically productive centers and small enchanted villages, where the passing of time seems to be stopped.

  Following narrow alleys, running within narrow arcades, it can be reached, on foot, a tower or a hill; narrow lanes that climb in an unexpected and step manner converging in a piazzetta, in which you can have a glimpse of beautiful women in their strict costumes, coming down with their harmonious and composed step.
  Here, with the L.R. n° 33/93, it has been instituted the Regional Park of Matese, but only a few months ago, a new decree has established it's definitive perimeter.

  The protected surface, about 50.000 hectares, enclose the communes of Ailano, Alife, Capriati al Volturno, Castello del Matese, Fontegreca, Gallo Matese, Gioia Sannitica, Letino, Piedimonte Matese, Prata Sannita, Raviscanina, Sant'Angelo d'Alife, S. Gregorio Matese, S. Potito Sannitico, Valle Agricola in province of Caserta and Cerreto Sannita , CusanoMutri, Faicchio, Pietraroja, San Lorenzello in the province of Benevento.

  Similar for altitude and geologic structure to the near chains, and in particular to the Mainarde and the mounts of the National Park of Abruzzo, Mount Matese propose to the naturalist a wild and unpolluted vegetation.
Visitors will be surprised by the splendid Beachwood that occupy a good part of Campania massif .
  Splendid Beachwood appear the rate, the maple curly, the mountain maple, the holly and the sorbs. The underbrush is not very thick. To lower quotas there is, instead, the Mediterranean spot, composed in prevalence by the holm-oak, hornbeam, mugging though, turkey oak. We may meet the napolitan alder, the asphodel, the gentian and the belladonna.

  Above the limit of the arboreal vegetation, the slopes of mount Miletto are covered by juniper bushes. In springtime and summertime we can also observe numerous wild orchids such as: Dactylorhiza, Platanthera and Orchid serapias.