Tag Archives: slow travel

Holidays are great for us all, they reduce stress levels, enable us to recharge our batteries, rest our minds and bodies ready to face our daily reality once the holiday is over. Often you get to try new activities and see places you wouldn’t normally see too. Ecobnb suggests you turn your free weekends into […]

Parco Cinque Terre is a group of five small villages that are spread along a rocky coastline that sits above the Mediterranean Sea in Liguria, Italy. It is also one of the 50 UNESCO sites in Italy. If you want a full day’s adventure these 5 villages can be reached by train. Trains leaves from each […]

Looking for some low cost tips for your summer holidays? Here are 5 amazing eco-itineraries in Italy, to discover by bicycle, on foot or by boat. Let us inspire you and share with us your experiences and your ideas. 1. Biking to Venice 3 boats, 25 km, 3 hours and 1 bike. These are the […]

The itinerary is 30 km long but you don’t need to do it all to catch the important sites and war memorials along the way. Just decide how long you want to walk for and what you want to see, check the “Da ponte a ponte” website and make sure you bring a good pair […]

Mount Etna is one of the icons of Sicily and, every year, it’s the destination of many tourists; but not everybody knows that there’s a railroad that climbs up the sides of the Sicilian volcano.

Have you ever tried trekking with donkeys? One of our readers has been fascinated by the experience of walking with donkeys and she asks us where it is possible to try it in Italy. Here are 8 destinations to experience the slow journey with donkeys in Italy: from Abruzzo, to the beautiful hills of Piacenza, from […]

Ammappa l’Italia is the name of a new project created by Marco S Perfido. The name is a pun on the term map and the idea is essentially to map the Italian territory. What’s new about that? You may ask, the first maps of this area date back to centuries ago, B.C. And you’d be right: […]

VenTo: from Venice to Turin by bike Italy will finally have one long bike trail featuring state of the art security, thanks to VenTo. The bike path runs for 679 km and connects Venice and Turin, crossing Milan via the picturesque path of the Navigli, the area of canals designed by Leonardo da Vinci in […]

Have you ever seen those passionate walkers crossing your path, swinging their arms energetically while holding long sticks that look a lot like ski poles? Well, I was one of them last weekend and…I loved it! Let’s start from the beginning: these intrepid explorers aren’t simply walking, they are practicing Nordic walking, a sport that […]

Meeting point at 10.00 AM on September,7th at Nocetum And …off we go! Nocetum, Fiab Ciclohobby and Rete Valle dei Monaci, together with Servizio per la pastorale sociale e del lavoro, have launched the “Moving sentinels” initiative: 15 km on bicycle along the protected path crossing the faraway south limits of the Parco Agricolo Sud of […]