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 Valnerina, Umbria, the old Spoleto-Norcia railway is today a spectacular greenway of tunnels and viaducts in the mountains. A masterpiece of early 20th-century engineering, it stays little visited even after the 2016 earthquake: those seeking the famous Umbria go to Assisi and Perugia.
Jun 30, 2026
In the Marche region, the Esino valley links the Frasassi Gorge to the Adriatic along riverbanks and gravel lanes. This is a Marche hinterland the tourist crowds overlook, rushing off to the famous caves or the beaches without ever pausing to cycle along the river.
Jun 30, 2026
In Upper Molise, Italy's least visited region, you ride the ancient grassy transhumance trails across highlands and near-deserted villages. No queues, no crowds: just silence, pastures and a forgotten Apennine world.
Jun 30, 2026
Straddling Molise and Campania, the Matese massif is a wild, almost unknown limestone Apennine: karst lakes, sinkholes and high pastoral roads where gravel riding flows in silence, far from the overrun destinations.
Jun 30, 2026
Along the disused route of the Avellino-Rocchetta railway, inland Irpinia reveals itself among Aglianico vineyards, forgotten bridges and rural villages. A Campania a world away from the crowded coast, where tourism barely arrives.
Jun 30, 2026
On the Alta Murgia, a lunar, near-uninhabited plateau in Apulia, the gravel track follows the main channel of the Apulian Aqueduct among steppe, masserie and sheepfolds. A vast, silent landscape, far from the overrun destinations.
Jun 30, 2026
In the inland countryside of Apulia's Valle d'Itria, farm tracks wind among centuries-old olive trees, dry-stone walls and scattered trulli. A gravel loop that avoids entirely the overrun centres like Alberobello, to rediscover a rural, silent Apulia.
Jun 30, 2026
On the Gargano, in Apulia, there is another world far from the crowded beaches: the wooded interior of the Foresta Umbra, made of shady beech woods and karst sinkholes. Pedalling here you meet very few cyclists, because almost everyone stays on the coast.
Jun 30, 2026
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