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At 1,159 metres in the Biella Alps, the Sanctuary of Oropa is one of the largest Baroque complexes in Italy and a place of genuine peace among the mountains.
Jul 9, 2026
At nearly a thousand metres, the Samnite theatre-temple of Pietrabbondante is the most important monument of the Samnite civilisation: sublime, solitary, and nearly invisible.
Jul 9, 2026
At 600 metres on Monte Subasio, this hamlet of Spello counts about fifty souls, a medieval castle, and a Roman path that descends through the olive groves to the city of flowers.
Jul 9, 2026
A fortified Navarrese hilltop village with a Romanesque-Gothic sanctuary, sweeping views over the plain, and a silence that feels centuries old.
Jul 5, 2026
Clinging to the rock above Lake Maggiore, the Hermitage of Santa Caterina del Sasso, born of a medieval vow, is a rare pocket of silence.
Jul 1, 2026
In the Aosta Valley, above Nus, the Saint-Barthélemy valley stays ignored by those racing toward the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc. Yet it holds alpine lakes and the Cuney sanctuary, among the highest in Europe, reachable only on foot in silence.
Jun 30, 2026
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.
Jun 30, 2026
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.
Jun 30, 2026
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.
Jun 30, 2026