Guide tematiche, itinerari lenti e alternative alle mete da overtourism: come muoversi tra le mete nascoste, regione per regione e stagione per stagione.
The Val d'Agri, in Basilicata, is a green valley floor between Lake Pertusillo and the mountains of the Appennino Lucano National Park. An authentic inland Basilicata, made of olive trees and quiet villages, where mass tourism simply does not reach.
Jun 30, 2026
On the Sila plateau, in Calabria, you pedal among giant pines and high-altitude mountain lakes. A cool, wooded Calabria almost no one imagines, far from the crowded beaches and travelled by very few cyclists.
Jun 30, 2026
The Magna Via Francigena connects Palermo to Agrigento through the rural heart of Sicily. An ancient path turned gravel route among feudal estates, wheat fields and inland villages, far from the tourist coast and travelled by very few.
Jun 30, 2026
On the Nebrodi Mountains, in Sicily, the island's most extensive forest is ignored beside the pull of Etna. Almost deserted pastoral roads among beech woods, horses and black pigs grazing freely: a slow mountain landscape where you meet almost no one.
Jun 30, 2026
In south-eastern Sicily, between Siracusa and Ragusa, secondary roads cut through a countryside of dry-stone walls all the way to the rock-cut necropolis of Pantalica. A rural Baroque landscape rideable even in winter, far from the crowded beaches and the mass tours.
Jun 30, 2026
In Sardinia, between Barbagia and Ogliastra, the inland roads trace the old narrow-gauge line of the Trenino Verde among limestone tablelands and shepherds' villages. This is Sardinia without the beaches: slow, uncrowded, where the mountains matter more than the coast.
Jun 30, 2026
In south-central Sardinia, Marmilla is a landscape of cultivated hills, domus de janas and nuraghi, crowned by the basalt plateau of the Giara di Gesturi with its wild little horses. An agricultural, ancient Sardinia, far from the coastal routes and almost tourist-free.
Jun 30, 2026
In the Sulcis-Iglesiente, at the far south-west of Sardinia, quiet roads link the abandoned mining heritage to the wetlands teeming with flamingos. A raw, little-known corner of the island, rideable for much of the year and almost always crowd-free.
Jun 30, 2026
In Trentino, the Val Rendena at the foot of the Adamello-Presanella and the Brenta Dolomites remains a snug Alpine valley: the Sarca cycle path runs along the valley floor among mountain farmsteads and waterfalls, far from the traffic of the better-known Lake Garda or Valsugana routes.
Jun 30, 2026