Guide tematiche, itinerari lenti e alternative alle mete da overtourism: come muoversi tra le mete nascoste, regione per regione e stagione per stagione.
In the Po Delta near Ferrara, the Comacchio Lagoons are brackish wetlands with historic fishing lodges, eels and flamingos, explored by boat or bike, crowd-free.
Jun 30, 2026
Outside the ski season, the Plateau of the Seven Communes turns silent and authentic again: mountain dairies, Cimbrian hamlets and Great War fortresses. A slow itinerary far from the crowds of the snow months.
Jun 30, 2026
Between Val Camonica and Val Trompia, the Val Grigna is a little-known pre-Alpine ridge, made of state forests and summer-pasture dairies. Almost only shepherds and local hikers walk it, far from the great tourist flows.
Jun 30, 2026
A flat, almost entirely gravel cycle route that crosses the Val di Chiana along the Canale Maestro, between Arezzo and Chiusi. While the tourist crowds head straight for Siena and Florence, this farming countryside stays quiet and perfectly suited to slow pedalling.
Jun 30, 2026
Monte Amiata is an ancient extinct volcano in the southern corner of Tuscany, cloaked in beech and chestnut woods and ringed by mercury-mining villages. Far from the postcard hills of the Val d'Orcia, it is an authentic mountain where tourism arrives in tiny numbers.
Jun 30, 2026
A historic route that descends from the Apennine passes of the Lunigiana down to Lucca, among Malaspina castles and stone villages. An almost forgotten pilgrimage way that crosses the most hidden and wild corner of Tuscany.
Jun 30, 2026
A rugged, little-travelled valley between the Apuan Alps and the Lucca Apennines, made of woods, mountain pastures and Este fortresses. The Garfagnana with the Orecchiella park is an authentic mountain Tuscany, ignored by mass tourism.
Jun 30, 2026
In the interior between Pisa, Siena and Grosseto, the Colline Metallifere offer a geothermal, mining Tuscany all but forgotten by tourism: vapours rising from the earth, woods and silent villages far from the classic routes of Chianti and the coast.
Jun 30, 2026
Between the Casentino and the Valdarno around Arezzo, the Pratomagno is a long grassy ridge little frequented by tourists: high-altitude meadows, beech woods and Romanesque parish churches offer 360-degree panoramas far from Tuscany's crowded destinations.
Jun 30, 2026