Far off the tourist track, Molise offers the best parts of Italy

Washington Post – It is one of Italy’s 20 regions, but it seems to get fewer visitors than certain restaurants in Tuscany. To the extent it has any reputation at all, it is as an unremarkable backwoods. Dismissed by travel guidebooks. Overlooked by Italians. On the wooden Italy puzzle I bought for my son — a piece for every region — Molise is attached to Abruzzo.