Tag Archives: walking

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: […]

For the Sicilians is a muntagna, for others is one of the most famous volcanoes still active in the world. We are talking of Etna, that with its 3300 meters is the biggest volcano in Italy and one of the symbols of Sicily. Etna annually attracts thousands of tourists in the summer months but also in winter, […]

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 […]

Sunday, 7:00 am. Why are you awake so early?!? Do you want enjoy every minute before Monday morning begins? Can’t stand to stay at home even a moment longer? Or do you just feel like trying something new? Come on, follow me! I know what is right for you. As we pass through  the valley […]

A forest of fir trees, thousands of sacred pillars that mark the rhythm of my footsteps through this great natural cathedral. I feel small and I think I hear the rustling of the leaves through the stories of writers and poets of which are steeped in these places, the stories of monks, saints and pilgrims […]

There were once more than six thousand kilometers of track on which they traveled the first puffing steam trains, among bridges and natural italian landscapes, cultivated plains and wild woods, hills dotted with rows of trees and breathtaking mountains. Next came the high speed, the highways and cars, and those old rails are become rusty […]

Are you thinking of a different winter city break? No snow trails and no skiing? Turin is your place! Long underrated and disregarded in comparison with well known beautiful Italian cities like Rome, Florence, Venice or Naples, Turin is now gaining more and more reputation as the Italian capital for modern art. Its private and […]

A journey in the Coast of Myth, where the ancient Greece embraces a wild nature, rich in perfumes and flavours, as cradle of the Mediterranean diet. You’ll be spoilt for choice, among pure coasts – where Ulysses’s mermaids used to sing – caves to discover, scented hills of cedar and olive trees to reach on […]

“Pilgrim is the one who seeks, accepting the risk of finding. Because finding means to be more than yo had ever been before. It’s about changing. It’s about dying. To be born again” ( David Gandini) Walking, Hiking, Backpacking, Trekking, are all the same, but in Italy it is tought that Via Francigena is the […]