Abruzzo is one of the greenest and least crowded regions in Italy: stone villages clinging to the mountainside, solitary hermitages, boundless highlands and three national parks where chamois and wolves still roam. Authentic, wild destinations far from mass tourism, where nature sets the pace and the towns preserve flavours, silence and traditions that have vanished elsewhere.
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The great drove road of the transhumance that crosses Abruzzo, Molise and Apulia: a grassy highway more than a hundred metres wide, today walked by only a handful of travellers, amid rural chapels, tall grasses and silence. One of the longest and least-trodden trails in Italy.
Jun 30, 2026
A historic trek in the heart of the Abruzzo Maiella, along the escape route of the Allied prisoners of 1943. Outside the late-April commemorative march you walk it almost in solitude, among beech forests, ravines and absolute silence.
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 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 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
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
Italy's Trans-Siberian is a scenic railway that climbs to almost Alpine altitudes between Sulmona, the Altopiani Maggiori and Roccaraso, in Abruzzo. Saved from closure and travelled by heritage trains, it crosses high plateaus and Apennine villages in a slow, spectacular journey far from the more beaten tourist destinations.
Jun 30, 2026
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.
Jun 30, 2026
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.
Jun 30, 2026