Guide tematiche, itinerari lenti e alternative alle mete da overtourism: come muoversi tra le mete nascoste, regione per regione e stagione per stagione.
Campo Imperatore, in the Gran Sasso Park in Abruzzo, is a high-altitude plateau nicknamed the little Tibet: endless prairies at around 1,800 metres, wild horses and isolated shelters. A landscape of absolute solitude that remains little visited by more beaten mountain tourism.
Jun 30, 2026
The Cammino di San Tommaso crosses Abruzzo from the slopes of the Maiella to the apostle's tomb in Ortona, on the Adriatic. Among hermitages, drovers' tracks and hills, it is a still little-trodden pilgrimage, a silent, wholly Italian alternative to the more crowded great routes of faith.
Jun 30, 2026
In the Maiella Park, in Abruzzo, rock hermitages cling to the cliffs where Pietro da Morrone, the future Pope Celestine V, once lived. Among wild valleys and solitary trails, an itinerary of eremitic spirituality still little frequented, far from the better-known religious destinations.
Jun 30, 2026
The Cammino delle Terre Mutate runs for roughly 250 kilometres across the earthquake-scarred lands of the central Apennines, from Fabriano to L'Aquila, through Marche, Umbria, Lazio and Abruzzo. A slow, solidarity-driven journey among the villages struck by the quakes, far from any tourist route.
Jun 30, 2026
The Monti della Laga, on the border between Lazio, Abruzzo and Marche within the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, are the only sandstone and marl mountains of the central Apennines: for this reason they hold water and fill with streams, waterfalls and beech forests. They stay deserted because everyone rushes to the nearby Gran Sasso or the Sibillini.
Jun 30, 2026
In inland Molise a stretch of the Pescasseroli-Candela droving trail survives, the ancient grassy route along which for centuries the flocks descended from Abruzzo to Apulia. Walking between the Samnite theatre of Pietrabbondante and the Roman city of Saepinum, you cross an almost unknown rural archaeology, in a region that mass tourism ignores entirely.
Jun 30, 2026
The Matese massif, straddling Molise and Campania, is one of the wildest and least trodden mountains in the Centre-South: high-altitude plateaus, sinkholes, Lake Matese and peaks such as the Gallinola and Monte Miletto. Off the tourist routes, it offers silence and boundless pastures just a few hours from Naples and Rome.
Jun 30, 2026
Upper Molise, around Agnone and Capracotta, is one of the most depopulated and silent areas in Italy: villages of bell foundries, ancient beech forests protected by UNESCO and high-altitude grazing meadows. A slow journey where the demographic void turns into deep quiet, far from any tourist circuit.
Jun 30, 2026
The Alpe della Luna Nature Reserve, in the Tuscan Upper Tiber Valley above Sansepolcro, is a wooded ridge range between Tuscany, Umbria and Marche, close to the source of the Tiber on nearby Monte Fumaiolo. Dense forests and almost no visitors, because it stays off to the side compared with the valley's art cities.
Jun 30, 2026