Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
In Sardinia, between Barbagia and Ogliastra, the inland roads trace the old narrow-gauge line of the Trenino Verde among limestone tablelands and shepherds' villages. This is Sardinia without the beaches: slow, uncrowded, where the mountains matter more than the coast.
Jun 30, 2026
In south-eastern Sicily, between Siracusa and Ragusa, secondary roads cut through a countryside of dry-stone walls all the way to the rock-cut necropolis of Pantalica. A rural Baroque landscape rideable even in winter, far from the crowded beaches and the mass tours.
Jun 30, 2026
On the Nebrodi Mountains, in Sicily, the island's most extensive forest is ignored beside the pull of Etna. Almost deserted pastoral roads among beech woods, horses and black pigs grazing freely: a slow mountain landscape where you meet almost no one.
Jun 30, 2026
The Magna Via Francigena connects Palermo to Agrigento through the rural heart of Sicily. An ancient path turned gravel route among feudal estates, wheat fields and inland villages, far from the tourist coast and travelled by very few.
Jun 30, 2026
On the Sila plateau, in Calabria, you pedal among giant pines and high-altitude mountain lakes. A cool, wooded Calabria almost no one imagines, far from the crowded beaches and travelled by very few cyclists.
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
In the heart of Basilicata, the Dolomiti Lucane are sandstone spires onto which villages like Castelmezzano and Pietrapertosa cling. A mountain landscape off every tourist route, where you can pedal amid spectacular views almost always in solitude.
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
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