Guide tematiche, itinerari lenti e alternative alle mete da overtourism: come muoversi tra le mete nascoste, regione per regione e stagione per stagione.
130 km across the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine, along Roman roads, through chestnut forests and lonely passes. Italy's most beautiful walk that isn't the Camino.
Jul 5, 2026
Norcia, Amatrice, Arquata del Tronto: 250 km on foot through the places struck by the 2016 earthquake, where reconstruction is an act of defiance.
Jul 5, 2026
70 km from Santhià to the Sanctuary of Oropa, from the Piedmontese plain to 1,160 metres in the Pre-Alps: a walk of faith and landscape without crowds.
Jul 5, 2026
On the Reggio Apennines, the Pietra di Bismantova is an isolated monolith surrounded by woods and badlands. Though cited by Dante, it remains an off-the-beaten-track destination: reached from the villages of the Emilian hinterland, far from the tourist flows of the coast and the art cities.
Jun 30, 2026
Punta La Marmora, in the Gennargentu massif, is the highest peak in Sardinia. Amid barren uplands and mouflons, it is one of the least-visited corners of the island: those who come for the beaches rarely climb this far, into the wild heart of Barbagia in the province of Nuoro.
Jun 30, 2026
Lago della Duchessa is a small glacial lake hidden among the limestone ridges on the border between Lazio and Abruzzo, in the reserve of the same name between Rieti and L'Aquila. Though close to Rome, it remains a destination for just a few hikers, far from the busiest tourist routes.
Jun 30, 2026
The Peaks of the Balkans is a loop trek crossing Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro through the Dinaric Alps, the so-called Accursed Mountains. Between shepherds' villages and family-run guesthouses, it stays uncrowded because it requires border permits and high-altitude stages.
Jun 30, 2026
Along the border between North Macedonia and Albania, the Korab massif and the nearby Šar Mountains offer high-altitude pastures almost devoid of tourist infrastructure, frequented mainly by shepherds. One of the least-trodden mountain areas in the Balkans, to be tackled in summer with a base in the valley villages.
Jun 30, 2026
The Bulgarian section of the European E3 trail crosses the entire Stara Planina ridge, from the Serbian border to the Black Sea. Hundreds of kilometres of crest with huts and panoramic ridges, still almost unknown outside the Balkans: one of Europe's great treks that has stayed off the radar.
Jun 30, 2026