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 province of Sondrio, Val Malenco offers the glaciers of the Bernina, green serpentine rock and historic huts along the Val Malenco High Route. A valley that has stayed off to the side compared to the Engadine and the Stelvio, where you can still walk in peace.
Jun 30, 2026
On the roof of the Bolognese Apennines, above Lizzano in Belvedere, Corno alle Scale offers glacial lakes, bilberry heaths and rugged ridges. Outside the ski season it is a silent mountain, far from the great tourist flows.
Jun 30, 2026
A route that crosses the Outer Hebrides archipelago, linking ten islands via ferries and causeways. Deserted white beaches, flowering machair and Atlantic wind: one of Britain's most remote and least travelled routes, far from the tourist circuits of mainland Scotland.
Jun 30, 2026
A former railway converted into a greenway in south-east Ireland, among viaducts, tunnels and the estuary facing the Celtic Sea. An area little known compared with the circuits of Dublin and Kerry, where you cycle on a dedicated, almost traffic-free path.
Jun 30, 2026
A railway that never entered service, converted into a greenway between Cádiz and Seville, crossing limestone gorges populated by griffon vultures. Stations turned into refuges and lit tunnels: a little-crowded Andalusian route, perfect in the mild winter months of southern Spain.
Jun 30, 2026
On the plain between Vercelli and Novara, the gravel embankments of the Cavour Canal cross flooded paddy fields that in spring become a vast mirror of water. A flat, silent landscape almost ignored by cycle tourism, where the effort is little and the wonder great.
Jun 30, 2026
North of the crowded Langhe, on the other bank of the Tanaro, the Roero offers badlands, woods and Arneis wineries without the tourist crush of its more famous neighbours. A gravel loop made of short but savage climbs and silent ridges, in the province of Cuneo.
Jun 30, 2026
On the border between Piedmont and Liguria, the Alta Via del Sale runs above 2,000 metres along an ancient military gravel road between Italy and France. Open only in the short summer window and with limited entry, it remains one of the wildest and most silent high-altitude routes in the Alps.
Jun 30, 2026
Between Savona and Acqui Terme, the Val Bormida is the Ligurian hinterland no one associates with the sea: border Apennine valleys with abandoned industrial villages, chestnut woods and silent towns. An itinerary for those seeking an unexpected, little-visited face of Liguria.
Jun 30, 2026