Little-known destinations, forgotten villages and whole regions to discover before everyone else does. The antidote to overtourism, one guide at a time.
In Irpinia, the rugged mountain province of Avellino, a food-and-wine itinerary links the cellars of Taurasi, Fiano and Greco di Tufo to villages reborn after the 1980 earthquake. It's a rural, silent Campania that the flows heading straight for the coast almost entirely ignore.
Jun 30, 2026
Along the ridge of the Monti Lattari, in Campania, a long walking crest looks down from above over the Amalfi and Sorrento coasts while remaining almost deserted, whereas the famous trails that run below, sheer above the sea, are besieged by thousands of walkers.
Jun 30, 2026
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.
Jun 30, 2026
A slow circuit in the Matese massif, on the Molise side, amid the lake, the karst sinkholes and stone villages like Roccamandolfi. A mountain district almost unknown to national tourism, where you can walk for hours without meeting anyone.
Jun 30, 2026
A rural itinerary along the drove roads of lower Molise down to the sea, amid farmsteads, ruined taverns and silent countryside. You cross one of the least-visited regions in Italy, where meeting another wayfarer is almost an event.
Jun 30, 2026
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 Alpe della Luna Nature Reserve, in the Tuscan Upper Tiber Valley above Sansepolcro, is a wooded ridge range between Tuscany, Umbria and Marche, close to the source of the Tiber on nearby Monte Fumaiolo. Dense forests and almost no visitors, because it stays off to the side compared with the valley's art cities.
Jun 30, 2026
Upper Molise, around Agnone and Capracotta, is one of the most depopulated and silent areas in Italy: villages of bell foundries, ancient beech forests protected by UNESCO and high-altitude grazing meadows. A slow journey where the demographic void turns into deep quiet, far from any tourist circuit.
Jun 30, 2026