The Mounts of Daunia take their name from the region of Puglia, corresponding to the ancient land of the Dauni, where they rise for the most part, while other parts of the chain are in the provinces of Avellino, Benevento and Campobasso.

The Monti del Partenio, also known as Monti di Avella, are identified by three ridges, organised in east/west directions and separated by deep valleys.

The Monti Picentini are a mountain range of the Campanian Apennines where you can identify about fifteen peaks, from the highest Monte Cervialto (1809 m) to the lowest Altillo (1430 m)

Already used since the Neanderthals era, as several worked stone tools testimony prove, the Ariano Saddle is the Apennine pass which in correspondence of the plateau of Camporeale, at an altitude of 600 meters, connects the Ufita-Miscano basin to the Cervaro Valley.

The most impressive mountain of the Picentini takes its name from the deers, numerous in the past but disappeared nowadays. The Picentini is one of the highest mountains in Campania . the Cervialto.

The ancient Aufidus, who, according to the legend, was surpassed by the elephants of Hannibal thanks to the bridge built close the actual Lioni, finds its source in the wood of Piano dell’Angelo, at 715 meters of altitude, close to Torella dei Lombardi.