Cammini d&#039;Italia: guida completa ai sentieri storici

Almost deserted Jul 9, 2026

Via Francigena of the South: From Rome to Santa Maria di Leuca Among Shepherds and Norman Cathedrals

The southern stretch of the Via Francigena crosses Campania, Basilicata and Puglia for 900 km to the tip of the Salento, almost unknown to northern European pilgrims.

Sulcis-Iglesiente, Sardinia

The Cammino di Santa Barbara: Hiking Through Sardinia's Mining Heartland

The Cammino di Santa Barbara winds 500km through south-western Sardinia between abandoned mines, deserted beaches and the lunar landscapes of the Sulcis-Iglesiente.

Puglia and Basilicata

Via Francigena del Sud: Walking Through Puglia and Basilicata to the End of Italy

The Via Francigena del Sud crosses Puglia and Basilicata across 400km of masserie, ancient drove roads and cave churches, ending at Santa Maria di Leuca.

From Santhià to Oropa, Piedmont, Italy

The Cammino di Oropa: Three Days on Foot from the Rice Fields to the Biella Alps

70 km from Santhià to the Sanctuary of Oropa, from the Piedmontese plain to 1,160 metres in the Pre-Alps: a walk of faith and landscape without crowds.

From Fabriano to Accumoli, Marche–Umbria–Lazio, Italy

Walking the Shaken Lands: On Foot Through the Earthquake Borghi Rising Again

Norcia, Amatrice, Arquata del Tronto: 250 km on foot through the places struck by the 2016 earthquake, where reconstruction is an act of defiance.

From Bologna to Florence, Emilia-Romagna–Tuscany, Italy

The Via degli Dei: Walking from Bologna to Florence Across the Apennine Nobody Tells You About (From Bologna to Florence, Emilia-Romagna–Tuscany, Italy)

From Bari to Matera, Puglia–Basilicata, Italy

The Via degli Dei: Walking from Bologna to Florence Across the Apennine Nobody Tells You About

130 km across the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine, along Roman roads, through chestnut forests and lonely passes. Italy's most beautiful walk that isn't the Camino.

Very quiet Jul 5, 2026

The Cammino Materano: 170 km on Foot from Bari to Matera Across the Murgia

A young trail linking two Apulian cities through masserie, cave churches and ravines — the slow alternative to hit-and-run tourism in southern Italy.

Italy

Winter Without Skis: The Italy You Enjoy on Foot, Not on the Slopes

Winter mountains aren't only about ski runs and lifts. Snowshoeing, frost-covered borghi, warm thermal baths: alternatives for those who love the cold, ski-free.

Very quiet Jul 5, 2026

Italy

Alta Murgia Park, Bari and Barletta

The Via Francigena Without the Crowds: Quieter Stages and the Right Time to Walk

The Francigena is stunning, but some stretches get busy. Variants, alternative stages, and the best seasons to walk it in peace.

Very quiet Jul 5, 2026

A Walk in the Alta Murgia Among Jazzi and Dolines

In the Alta Murgia National Park, between the provinces of Bari and Barletta, you walk through a silent Mediterranean steppe, among isolated farmsteads and the unmistakable silhouette of Castel del Monte. A harsh landscape that stays off every tourist circuit.

Umbria-Lazio

The Way of Saint Benedict: from Norcia to Subiaco and Montecassino

From Umbria to Lazio, the Way of Saint Benedict links Norcia, Subiaco and Montecassino across Apennine valleys and earthquake-stricken villages coming back to life: a slow, spiritual itinerary still far less travelled than the mass pilgrim routes.

Lunigiana, Tuscany

The Via del Volto Santo: on foot through the Lunigiana to Lucca

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.

From Mantua to Lucca, the Reggio and Parma Apennine stretch, Italy

The Via Matildica del Volto Santo in the Reggio Apennines

Between Mantua and Lucca, the Via Matildica crosses the lands of Matilda of Canossa with castles, parish churches and Apennine ridges. The Reggio and Parma stretch remains little walked compared with the Tuscan routes, ideal for those seeking silence and history.

From the Brenta Dolomites to Trento, Italy

The Cammino di San Vili from Madonna di Campiglio to Trento

The Cammino di San Vili is an ancient walking route that links the Brenta Dolomites to Trento along mid-mountain trails and rural villages. It is the slow, silent alternative to fashionable Madonna di Campiglio, a way to descend from the peaks to the city one step at a time.

Val Camonica, from Capo di Ponte to the rock-art parks, Brescia, Italy

The Rock Carvings of the Val Camonica on Foot

The Val Camonica, in the province of Brescia, holds one of the largest complexes of prehistoric rock carvings in the world, the first Italian site inscribed on the UNESCO list. And yet its parks remain surprisingly little visited: a walking itinerary among engraved rocks, villages and medieval churches, far from mass tourism.

Lower and middle Aosta Valley along the Dora Baltea, Italy

The Cammino Balteo, the Valley-Floor Loop of the Aosta Valley

The Cammino Balteo is a long loop that crosses the lower and middle Aosta Valley following the Dora Baltea, among castles, heroic vineyards and valley-floor villages. While the high mountains fill up in summer, here you can walk in spring and autumn too, along a little-trodden route made for slow travel.

Biella area, Piedmont

The Oropa Way: from Santhià to the Sanctuary

A devotional walk of a few days that rises from the rice-growing plain of the Vercelli area up to the Biella Alps and the Sanctuary of Oropa. Still little known compared with the great Francigena routes, it offers silence, rural villages and a memorable high-altitude arrival.

Sicani, Sicily

A Walk Through the Sicani Mountains, from Palazzo Adriano to Sant'Angelo Muxaro

Between Palermo and Agrigento, the Sicani Mountains are an almost forgotten inland massif. A slow walk among nature reserves, caves and villages of Arbëreshë origin, far from the tourist routes that run along the coasts and the great archaeological sites.

Tyrrhenian coast of the Cosenza province, Calabria

The Way of San Francesco di Paola, from the coast to the sanctuary

On the Tyrrhenian coast of the Cosenza province, in Calabria, a devotional route that climbs from the sea to the hills up to the sanctuary of the patron saint of Calabria. It is walked almost only by local pilgrims and is nearly unknown to international tourism.

Lower Cilento, Campania (from Sapri to Palinuro)

The Way of San Nilo in the Byzantine Cilento

A monastic route on the trail of Italo-Greek eremitism in the Cilento, from Sapri to Palinuro, amid caves, stone villages and the sea. Far from the crowded beaches, you walk from the mountains to the coast through a silent Cilento that almost no tourist knows.

Central Apennines (Marche, Umbria, Abruzzo)

Cammino delle Terre Mutate: from Fabriano to L'Aquila

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.

Maiella and Ortona, Abruzzo

Cammino di San Tommaso: from the Maiella to the sea at Ortona

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.

Lazio-Abruzzo

Cammino Naturale dei Parchi: walking from Rome to L'Aquila

The Cammino Naturale dei Parchi links Rome to L'Aquila, crossing seven protected areas on foot through the Sabina, the Cicolano and the Gran Sasso. A recent and still little-known green route, it avoids busy roads and passes through villages, valleys and mountains far from the main tourist flows.

Holy Valley (Valle Santa), Rieti, Lazio

The Cammino di Francesco in the Holy Valley of Rieti

A loop among the four Franciscan sanctuaries of the Holy Valley, in the Rieti basin: Greccio, Fonte Colombo, La Foresta and Poggio Bustone, linked by woods and Apennine mule tracks. Quiet, widespread spirituality, far from mass religious tourism, in the geographical heart of Italy.

Cicolano and the Salto Valley, Lazio-Abruzzo

The Cammino dei Briganti between Lazio and Abruzzo in the Cicolano

A walking loop through the Cicolano, straddling Lazio and Abruzzo, across woods, ruins and all-but-abandoned villages: a marginal, silent mountain region far from the tourist trails, where the trail itself was created to bring life and wayfarers back.

Umbria-Marche

The Cammino Francescano della Marca: From Assisi to Ascoli Piceno

A spiritual walk linking Assisi, in Umbria, to Ascoli Piceno, in the Marche, in the footsteps of Saint Francis between Apennine and Piceno villages. Still little walked compared with the great Franciscan itineraries, it offers days of silence among mountains, valleys and compact towns.

Marche

The Cammino dei Cappuccini: Between the Furlo Gorge and the Marche Hinterland

An itinerary through the inland Marche that links Franciscan friaries, clay badlands and medieval villages, far from the crowded coast. It crosses hilly and Apennine areas little trodden by tourism, where you walk in peace among rural landscapes and places of spirituality.

Central Marche

The Via Lauretana: The Way to the Sanctuary of Loreto

In the central Marche, an ancient pilgrimage route through hills and walled villages leading to the sanctuary of Loreto. Far from the fame of the great European ways, it remains little walked and is almost always crossed in solitude, among cultivated fields and compact historic centres.

Agro Falisco and Amerino, Umbria-Lazio

The Via Amerina on foot: on the ancient road of the Etruscans and Romans

Between the Agro Falisco in Lazio and the Amerino in Umbria, the Via Amerina preserves stretches of Roman paving, rock-cut necropolises and gorges hidden in the tuff. It is a forgotten consular road, far from the tourist circuits, ideal for walking through history in solitude.

Amerino, Umbria

The Walk of the Silent Villages in the Umbrian Amerino

In the Amerino, the south-western corner of Umbria, the Walk of the Silent Villages crosses woods and near-deserted hamlets. Born precisely as an escape from noisy tourism, it is a loop designed for those seeking silence, slowness and village hospitality.

Carnia, Carnic Alps, Udine, Italy

The Cammino delle Pievi in Carnia

In Carnia, among the Carnic Alps of Friuli, the Cammino delle Pievi is a long loop linking ancient parish churches and mountain pastures of a depopulated landscape. A route still off the radar, made of silence, ancient faith, and genuine hospitality.