Hiking Routes and Paths in the Apennines
In the route fact sheets you can find: descriptions of the routes, height gain, walking times (for a regular hiker), difficulty grades, the downloadable track of the route in Google Earth format, maps and weather forecasts for the area of the hike, details of mountain huts and phone numbers.
Hike from the Convento dei Cappuccini to the Convento di Palazzolo
By Redazione Published: 20/09/2014
Introduction: Not far from Rome, a cool and very damp setting overlooking Lago di Albano. A walk suitable for children among chestnuts, holm oaks, downy oaks, ferns and maidenhair ferns.Route features: Simple linear path that…
Hike to Monte Amiata (1738 m) from Prato le Macinaie
By Redazione Published: 06/08/2014
Introduction: An area still too little known for its natural features, Monte Amiata is a mountain of volcanic origin on whose slopes stretches one of the largest beech woods in central Italy. Climbing to the…
Monte Gennaro from Palombara Sabina
By Redazione Published: 26/05/2014
Introduction: Monte Gennaro is Rome's mountain par excellence. When in winter the sky is clear and its summit is covered in snow, you can see its outline even from distant Via Cristoforo Colombo, the great…
In the footsteps of Michelangelo
By Alessandro Benazzi Published: 06/05/2014
Introduction: The route starts and ends at Caprese Michelangelo, the small village that was the birthplace of the greatest artist of the Renaissance; it runs along the eastern spurs of the Alpe di Catenaia, following…
Franciscan paths from Chiusi della Verna
By Alessandro Benazzi Published: 24/04/2014
Introduction: The first part of the route follows the way that, according to tradition, St Francis walked when he returned to Assisi from La Verna in September 1224. A short variant, just after the start,…
Monte Pollino (2248 m) - In the realm of Apollo, among ancient Bosnian pines
By Adalberto Corraro Published: 22/04/2014
Introduction: the Pollino National Park, the largest in Italy, is one of the few that can boast mountains of considerable height, with wide views over the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian Sea among the thousand-year-old Bosnian…
Traverse of the Alpe di Catenaia
By Alessaandro Benazzi Published: 22/04/2014
Introduction: The first part of the route winds along the right bank (looking downstream) of the Rassina stream, partly following the old customs road that linked Rassina with La Verna; the route lets you visit…
Hike through the villages of the Val Rassina
By Alessandro Benazzi Published: 22/04/2014
Introduction: The first part of the route winds along the hydrographic right of the Rassina stream, partly following the old customs road that linked Rassina with La Verna; the route lets you visit some characteristic…
Monte San Franco (2132 m) loop hike
By Redazione Published: 01/11/2013
Introduction: A wide-ranging loop hike, with a walk through the rich woods of Monte San Franco and along its broad ridge, which gives a beautiful view over Lago di Campotosto. A hike better suited to…