Trekking through Italy
In this so delicate time, everybody’s fear is to get infected… So, what do we do? Shut themselves in the house it is not an option anymore. This would not be living healthy mental lives. Especially after the so long and exhausting quarantine, we want to still feel the fresh air, the sun on our face, have a little freedom. Beforehand, we do need to choose carefully the place we wish to visit. An optimal idea for avoiding crowds would be to go on trekking. Italy it is a great place for hitting footpaths. Here, few unknown trails where it is pretty hard to find many people these days:
Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Dolomites
Those are three battlement-like peaks, located in the northeastern Italy. They are probably one of the best-known mountain groups in the Alp. The Tre Cime hike begins from the car/bus park at Rifugio Auronzo, which can be reached by bus or car from the nearby town of Cortina. It is a 10 km trail that can be completed within three hours.
Selvaggio Blu, Sardinia
The Selvaggio Blu means “Wild Blue”, it is a trekking route in the territory of Baunei district. You will walk through creeks, to cliffs, rivers, and caves along with the wonderful Mediterranean scenery. It is a five days challenge for experienced hikers in the wild nature. This is a hike which requires on average seven hours daily for each excursion. Please, be prepared for this competitive adventure.
Stromboli, Sicily
Stromboli volcano it is a magnificent place to visit because surrounded of its black-sand beaches, and by the magnetic sea, it offers the perfect mind-set for trekking up to the mountain. Since ancient times, the Stromboli is one of few volcanoes in the world that is in near-constant activity. It offers visitors a relatively easy access to a vantage point where its eruptions can be observed from very close range in reasonable safety.
Monte Pollino, Calabria
It is the green heartland of Southern Italy, halfway between Basilicata and Calabria, you can whiteness breathtaking views, completed with well-preserved medieval towns. Monte Pollino, it is known also as “mountain of Apollo” (the Greek god of the sun), it is the second highest peak of the Pollino massif and the entire Southern Apennines. The Monte Pollino can be climbed all year round; however, best times of the year are from June to October. The trail it is doable from Colle d’Impsio which takes only 3 ½ hours.
Valle dei Mulini, Amafi Coast
The Mills Valley, is a verdant grouping of modern ruins nestled at the bottom of a deep Italian crevasse. You can experience the deep crack in the rock which houses and crumbling buildings originated during a huge eruption able to devastate the Mediterranean area 35.000 years ago. Hiking to the Mills Valley, can start walking in the Amalfi coast and discovering the history of the ancient republic with its paper mills and nature. The shorter and easier route it would be starting from Amalfi where you will face the uphill path via the stairways.
Antonia L. Mosca