Morcone overlooks the Tammaro Valley, along the border between Campania and Molise, perched and fan-shaped on the slope of Mount Mucre. Its origins are confused between legend and history in the stories of an ancient Samnite city - perhaps Murgantia or more likely Mucrae, oppido del Sannio Pentro, from which would derive the very name of Morcone - whose mighty remains of polygonal walls are visible below the ruins of the medieval castle and still existing on top of the hill.

The first reference to Morcone, dates back to 776 AD when, in the Lombard era became an important gastaldate (this thesis seems to be exceeded because in the document of the Monastery of Farfa (RI) is not written "de Murcone" but "de Furcone", see "Morcone - lineaments of history" by Plensio G.) It was a bishopric from 1058 to 1122 and since the eleventh century enjoyed the title of "civitas". During the Norman, Swabian and Angevin eras, he developed the organization of the Universitas, electing the representation of the people independently.

On 11 July 1381, Queen Margaret of Durrës, wife of Charles III, King of Naples, authenticated the rest of the Statutes governing the life and activities of the inhabitants, confirming and increasing municipal privileges. The sovereign, with her sons Giovanna and Ladislao, resided for a long time in the castle of Morcone, which was his fief became a defensive stronghold during the war between the Durres and the Angevins. In the following centuries, the property passed from the Gaetani to the Carafa, later to the D'Aponte, then to the De Capua and from the Baglioni to the Carafa of Colobrano, until the abolition of the feudal institute occurred with DR August 2, 1806.So Morcone returned to the Molise County to remain there until 1861, when the province of Benevento was established, of which it is still part today.